8-page list. Questions on some of 17 key discoveries, innovations. Ecology, environmental sciences, biology.

A list of the scientific questions that were answered. Evidence of merit of the series of publications that answered these questions.

http://5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/04/8-page-list-questions-on-some-of-17-key.html
[updated April 23, April 5, 2014].

http://5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/04/43-page-list-questions17-key.html http://5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/01/43-page-list-17-key-discoveries.html http://www.scribd.com/doc/61828106/ ; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259501053_43page_list_17_KEY_DISCOVERIESINNOVATIONS_in-ecology-environmental-sciencesbiology._Selected.Scribd_61828106 links, web pages to get the full texts: publications on environmental science, life science, ecology, water quality; at ResearchGate, see: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/S_Ostroumov/contributions/?ev=prf_act https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259868443_Innovation_1._Innovative_concept_of_ho w_ecosystems_improve_water_quality._Theory_of_water_self-purification?ev=prf_pub Key words: environment, ecotoxicology, water, aquatic, ecosystems, freshwater, marine, environmental safety, biodiversity, protection, nature conservation, water quality, selfpurification, services, hydrosphere, pollution, resources, control, habitats, pollutants, biological, sustainability, anthropogenic, effects, environmental chemistry, ** 8-page list. 17 KEY DISCOVERIES, INNOVATIONS. EXAMPLES OF KEY DISCOVERIES in ecology, environmental sciences, biology: A short list of some key discoveries and innovative scientific publications. A list of the scientific questions that were answered.
http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2014/01/43-page-list-17-key-discoveries.html

ANSWERING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: The questions are organized into the groups, each group is called 'item': Item 1: Besides microorganisms, do some other organisms play key roles in improving water quality? Which processes are the main ones which contribute to water self-purification? Which organisms play key roles in improving water quality in aquatic ecosystems? Which organisms, freshwater or marine are more involved in improving water quality? How biological, chemical and physical processes are interacting in ecosystem in improving water quality? Is it possible to organize a multitude of factors and processes of water self-purification into a few groups (categories, blocks)? Is the self-purification potential of an aquatic ecosystem a certain constant or a labile parameter?

Is the mechanism of water self-purification vulnerable to external impact on the aquatic ecosystem, e.g. to the impact of chemical pollution with synthetic chemicals? The Answers were given in the papers see online: http://www.scribd.com/doc/60659939/; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259868443_Innovation_1._Innovative_concept_of_ho w_ecosystems_improve_water_quality._Theory_of_water_self-purification?ev=prf_pub (this link was added on January 25, 2014) ** ANSWERING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS; Item 5: Are there any other key factors contributing to eutrophication except for an increase in P, N, temperature, and stagnation of water? Are there any other man-made (anthropogenic) factors that stimulate eutrophication, in addition to extra loads of P and/or N? The Answer: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61241602/; The synecological approach to the problem of eutrophication. - Doklady Biological Sciences, Vol. 381, 2001, p. 559562. ISSN 0012-4966. Text of this key paper, online free: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10614405_The_synecological_approach_to_the_probl em_of_eutrophication ; http://www.scribd.com/doc/49065550/ ** ANSWERING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, Item 6: What is the role of freshwater mollusks in biogeochemistry and geochemistry? Do freshwater mollusks contribute significantly to geochemistry (content of organic matter) of the bottom sediments? What is the quantitative estimate of concentrations of the chemical elements (C, N, P, Si, and Al) in the pellets produced by aquatic mollusks? What are the quantitative estimates of the fluxes of those chemical elements driven by aquatic mollusks and mediated by their pellets, per one unit of the area of the surface of bottom of the aquatic ecosystem? The Answer: www.scribd.com/doc/61247059/; S. A. Ostroumov, and M. P. Kolesnikov. Pellets of some mollusks in the biogeochemical flows of C, N, P, Si, and Al. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001, v.379, p.378-381. Full text free: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259579605_Pellets-of-some-mollusks-in-thebiogeochemical-flows-of-C-N-P-Si-and-Al ; ** ANSWERING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, Item 7: Are there any man-made (anthropogenic) factors that decrease or inhibit the natural fluxes of chemical elements in the biosphere and ecosystems?

More specifically, are there any anthropogenic factors that could inhibit the fluxes of the chemical elements (C, N, P, Si, and Al) via feeding and the pellets produced by aquatic mollusks? The Answer: www.scribd.com/doc/61251644/; Ostroumov S. A., Kolesnikov M. P. Biocatalysis of matter transfer in a microcosm is inhibited by a contaminant: effects of a surfactant on Lymnaea stagnalis. - Doklady Biological Sciences, Vol. 373, 2000, p. 397 399. Full text free: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12309563_Biocatalysis_of_matter_transfer_in_a_micr ocosm_is_inhibited_by_a_contaminant_effects_of_a_surfactant_on_Limnea_stagnalis www.scribd.com/doc/49065530/ ; Translated from the Russian publication: Doklady Akademii Nauk (DAN, ), Vol. 373, No. 2,2000, p. 278 280. in Rus.: : Lymnaea stagnalis // (). 2000. . 373. 2. .278-280. : www.gallery.moip.msu.ru/?p=65; ** ANSWERING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, Item 8: Is ecosystem an organism or mechanism? Is it possible to find analogies between attributes of ecosystem and features of technological devices? Which conceptual innovations could be found in how aquatic ecosystem maintains water quality? The Answer: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61779321/ ** ANSWERING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, Item 9: What is a modern, logically consistent, correct definition of ecosystem? Which definition of ecosystem is usable in education, in teaching? Which definition of ecosystem is clear enough to be used in implementation of environmental law? The Answer see in: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200577836_New_definitions_of_the_concepts_and_ter ms_ecosystem_and_biogeocenosis http://www.scribd.com/doc/62076114/; ** ANSWERING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, Item 10: Do aquatic plants have a potential to remove simultaneously several toxic metals from water?

Is it possible to find a species of aquatic plants that have a potential to remove simultaneously four toxic metals from water lead, copper, cadmium and zinc? Can aquatic plants remove these four toxic metals so that their concentrations in water decrease reaching a safe level? If yes, how much time does it take? The answers in: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200502252_Decreasing_the_measurable_concentration s_of_Cu_Zn_Cd_and_Pb_in_the_water_of_the_experimental_systems_containing_Ceratophyllu m_demersum_The_phytoremediation_potential?ev=srch_pub&_sg=WrdptIU1C7W%2Bt0IAhQ zgzhYlmKbl7VP9U5BA4jlfzxs3fsBBLNN6kEYPHGFA80DE_6RQ3Gnw2wP3u1HpziUGbNN 8mMm4O%2Fx0YnkbUjK%2F8CH7ZO3S32TSFIQTm9cgUzIzO https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259579700_Paper_published_titled_Decreasing_the_ Measurable_Concentrations_of_Cu_Zn_Cd_and_Pb_in_the_Water_of_the_Experimental_Syste ms_Containing_Ceratophyllum_demersum_The_Phytoremediation_Potential?ev=srch_pub&_sg =vFZctyA8nnvAPkFcJgcd7dclwrstdNDegUVyCxCz%2FZGlxvmlHQYqL2IqV4h%2BfI6q_uW 36yp9Ko%2FZR8ohCsJb6Yg9vPtcbx3MZiWo%2Bal8TYQ5OFSQ%2F%2BdijQbUvQ5w1Gir C

http://www.scribd.com/doc/62146380/ ** ANSWERING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, Item 12: What mechanisms help maintain ecological balance between distant or conflicting or competing against each other populations of organisms in the biosphere? What ecological mechanisms help cells of gametes of cells of different mating types or organisms of different gender to find each other under conditions of chaotic mix of enormous amount of other cells and organisms in almost any given habitat? What mechanisms help maintain the well-organized structure of trophic webs (food webs, food chains) in the biosphere? What mechanisms help maintain other phenomena and manifestations of the space-time selforganization in the biosphere? The Answer: http://scipeople.com/publication/67236/; http://www.scribd.com/doc/41634664; http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergei_Ostroumov/blog/5465_ConceptsEcologicalChemom ediators; ** ANSWERING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, Item 13: Is it correct to think that low-level (sublethal) pollution is less dangerous than a high level (lethal effect inducing) pollution? [Paradoxically, our research gave the answer: No] The Answer: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61779321/; http://www.scribd.com/doc/60659939/; http://www.scribd.com/doc/60757545/ ** ANSWERING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, Item 14:

Is it possible to find a situation where a chemical pollutant may trigger/induce a hazard of breaking an important connection/link between parts of an ecosystem? The Answer: http://www.scribd.com/doc/45913695/A-new-Type-of-Effect-2DBS-fulltext; http://sites.google.com/site/ostroumovsergei/publications-1/new-type-of-action-of-potentiallyhazardous-chemicals-uncouplers-of-pelagial-benthal-coupling-novyi-tip-deistviya-potentzialnoopasnykh-veshchestv-razobshchiteli-pelagialno-bentalnogo-sopryazheniya--dan-2002-v-383-no1-p138-141; http://sites.google.com/site/ostroumovsergei/publications-1/a-new-type-of-effect-of-potentiallyhazardous-substances-uncouplers-of-pelagialbenthal-coupling---doklady-biological-sciences2002-vol-383-1-6; http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergei_Ostroumov/blog/179_A_new_type_of_effect_of_pot entially_hazardous_substances_uncouplers_of_pelagialbenthal_coupling; http://www.researchgate.net/publication/11319341_A_new_type_of_effect_of_potentially_hazar dous_substances_uncouplers_of_pelagial-benthal_coupling; scipeople.ru/group/341/topic/1395/; ** ANSWERING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, Item 15: Is it possible to find any new ecological/biological mechanisms which life may operate towards making the chemical environment less toxic? Is it possible to identify a functionally new type of matter in the biosphere and the global environment? The Answer: http://scipeople.ru/publication/102875/; ** ANSWERING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, Item 16: How man-made effects on ecosystems may distort the normal way of how the organisms of the adjacent trophic levels interact with each other? The Answer: in English: http://sites.google.com/site/2001dbs380p499synerg/; http://www.scribd.com/doc/49065634/Danbio52-2001v380p847-E-2level-synergism; ** ANSWERING IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, Item 17: Is it possible to identify some other factors besides the excessive amount of nutrients some other key factors that could induce or trigger algal blooms (and cyanobacterial blooms, including red tides, brown tides, etc.)? The Answer see: http://www.scribd.com/doc/52598579/; http://b23.ru/nwmb; http://www.scribd.com/doc/49065550/; ** EVIDENCE OF MERIT:

9 Items of Evidence of Merit. Series of publications on EVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, chemical-biological interactions in the biosphere - ecological basis for protection of the environment. Tags: conservation, ecology, ecotoxicology, water quality, pollution, pollutants, detergents, surfactants. Authored, co-authored by a researcher at Moscow State University, Fulbright Awardee Sergei A. Ostroumov: http://5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/04/series-of-publications-on-chem-biol.html http://ru.scribd.com/doc/219476640/9-Items-of-Evidence-of-Merit ** CONTENT: EVIDENCE OF MERIT, IMPACT, RECOGNITION: 1. CITATION. 2. APPROVAL IN REVIEWS, EVALUATIONS. 3. INVITATIONS TO GIVE PRESENTATION, TO CONDUCT RESEARCH. 4. AWARDS AND HONORS. 5. ATTENTION OF INTERNET USERS. 6. BOOKS WERE TRANSLATED INTO OTHER LANGUAGES. 7. PUBLICATIONS WERE ACQUIRED BY TOP UNIVERSITIES, NATIONAL LIBRARIES. 8. PUBLICATIONS ARE BEING USED, RECOMMENDED BY UNIVERSITIES FOR EDUCATION. 9. INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS WHO ENDORSED THE AUTHOR'S SKILLS: ** MORE DETAIL: http://5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/04/series-of-publications-on-chem-biol.html 1. CITATION.
CITATION worldwide: http://5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/04/citation-updatedthey-cited-these.html http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2014/04/evidence-of-merit-articles-on-enviro.html

2. APPROVAL IN REVIEWS, EVALUATIONS. http://www.scribd.com/doc/46471534

http://www.scribd.com/doc/45111401 Biological Effects of Surfactants on Organisms (2001): http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/06/publishedreviews-of-book-ostroumov-sa.html

Published reviews of book: Biological Effects of Surfactants. All reviews are favorable. http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2014/03/published-reviews-of-book-biological.html Reviews (favorable) of book: Conservation of Living Nature and Resources: Problems, Trends, and Prospects; http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2014/03/reviews-favorable-of-book-conservation.html 3. INVITATIONS TO GIVE PRESENTATION, TO CONDUCT RESEARCH. The invitations were received from U.S.A., U.K., Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark et al. 4. AWARDS AND HONORS. Fulbright Award; Diploma of Scientific Discovery; the honor title 'Aquatic Ecologist of Year' (2009);

5. ATTENTION OF INTERNET USERS. Number of views (Google, Blogger, Apr18, 2014): 450 223 ; Number of views (ResearchGate Apr 22, 2014): 16K; number of downloads (ResearchGate, Apr18, 2014): 2,815; April 21: 2,868 downloads; Publications were BOOKMARKED, UPVOTED, DOWNLOADED: http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2014/04/evidence-of-merit-articles-on-enviro.html 6. BOOKS WERE TRANSLATED INTO OTHER LANGUAGES. books are published in English, Russian, and also are translated into and published in Spanish, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian; 7. PUBLICATIONS WERE ACQUIRED BY TOP UNIVERSITIES, NATIONAL LIBRARIES. e.g., by Harvard, M.I.T., Oxford, Cambridge: http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2014/03/useful-book-onenvironmental-safety.html

http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/11/libraries-worldwide-acquired-books-and.html http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2013/03/top-american-universities-acquired-and.html http://5bio5.blogspot.ru/2012/11/libraries-of-uk-and-usa-acquired-these.html http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/11/libraries-of-uk-and-usa-acquired-these.html http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2013/01/usa-canada-uk-australia-et-al.html USA, Canada, France, Japan, China, Belgium, Switzerland, England, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Australia: http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/10/best-libraries-usa-canada-francejapan.html U.S. universities, libraries, Caltech, Harvard, M.I.T.: http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/10/usa-topuniversities-libraries-acquired.html National Library of Sweden: http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/12/swedennational-library-of-sweden-book.html Hong Kong, HKUST Library: http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/11/hong-kong-hkust-library-acquired-books.html 8. PUBLICATIONS ARE BEING USED, RECOMMENDED IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION. http://5bio5.blogspot.com/2012/10/modernizing-environmental-university.html

** 9. INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS WHO ENDORSED THE AUTHOR'S SKILLS: On experts who endorsed Dr. S. Ostroumov' skills at ResearchGate, selected:
Canada; BSc (Hons) First Class Zoology, PhD Biochemistry; Professor,

University of Saskatchewan School of Environment and Sustainability His score (at ResearchGate) is higher than 97.5% of ResearchGate members'. ** Italy: Ph. D., professor of Ecology; Professor (Full) - Fundamentals of system analysis, social-ecological landscape analysis Universit del Salento Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Science; He directs the Landscape Ecology Laboratory working on social-ecological landscape assessment, goods and services, impact and risk assessment. His score (at ResearchGate) is higher than 97.5% of ResearchGate members'. ** Professor, Poznan University of Technology; His score is higher than 97.5% of ResearchGate members'. ** M.Sc.,Ph.D.,D.Sc. Professor (Full), Ege University; His score is higher than 65% of ResearchGate members'.

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Deputy Head of Department Universitatea Dunarea de Jos G... Department of Chemistry, Physics, and Environment

Her score is higher than 77.5% of ResearchGate members'. ** SEE ALSO:

12-Page online publication: Enviro. Sci. Innovations, new steps. References (English, Russian), comments. 12 pages. At the end of the text, some key words in English, and other languages, including inter alia French, Russian, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic http://5bio5.blogspot.ru/2014/04/enviro-sci-innovations-new-steps.html http://ru.scribd.com/doc/219797491/Enviro-Sci-Innovations-New-Steps-References-Comments-12Pages

Key words: environment, ecotoxicology, environmental chemistry, water, sustainability, aquatic, ecosystems, freshwater, marine, resources, environmental safety, biodiversity, protection, conservation, services, hydrosphere, pollution, control, prevention, habitats, water quality, selfpurification, pollutants, biological, anthropogenic, effects,