Publications. Ecology, Environment, Biology. 2009-2010.

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________Key words: Toxicological, Bulletin, Doklady, Biological, Sciences, Akademii, Nauk,

pollution, biosphere, hazards, surfactant, phytotechnology, phytoremediation, S.A.Ostroumov,
water, biogeochemistry, heavy metals, university, ecosystem, aquatic, water quality, pollutants,
xenobiotics, rehabilitation, detergents, metals, tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide, marine,
freshwater, mussels, Mytilus edulis, Mytilus galloprovincialis.

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________Ostroumov S.A., Danilova V.N., Khushvakhtova S.D., Ermakov V.V. Mercury in the
soft tissues and shells of bivalve mollusks // Toxicological Bulletin (Toksikologicheskiy
Vestnik). 2009. No. 1. p.45-46. (in Russ.)

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________Vorozhun I. M., S. A. Ostroumov. On studying the hazards of pollution of the

biosphere: effects of sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) on planktonic filter-feeders // Doklady
Akademii Nauk, 2009, Vol. 425, No. 2, pp. 271–272. Tables. Bibliogr. 15 refs. [Presented by
Academician M.A. Fedonkin, June 26, 2008; Received July 1, 2008]. Translated into English:

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________Vorozhun I. M., S. A. Ostroumov. On studying the hazards of pollution of the

biosphere: effects of sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) on planktonic filter-feeders. - Doklady
Biological Sciences, 2009, Vol. 425, pp. 133–134. Tables. Bibliogr. 15 refs. [ISSN 0012-4966.
DOI: 10.1134/S0012496609020136; http://www.springerlink.com/content/p7754h672w814m30/;
original Russian text: I.M. Vorozhun, S.A. Ostroumov, 2009, published in Doklady Akademii
Nauk, 2009, Vol. 425, No. 2, pp. 271–272]. The goal of this study was to test whether SDS has
an inhibitory effect on the ability of the planktonic filter-feeder Daphnia magna to remove
phytoplankton from water during their filtration activity. Daphnia were kept under laboratory
conditions in vessels and fed with phytoplankton: green algae Scenedesmus quadricauda (Turp.)
Breb.). After filtration for 6–24 h in the presence of SDS at concentrations 5 and 10 mg/l, the
abundance of S. quadricauda cells in water was higher than in the control. At the lower SDS
concentrations (0.1, 0.5, and 1 mg/l), differences in the abundance of algal cells relative to the
control were observed after 3 h of incubation and disappeared after 6–24 h of incubation. The
calculation of the mean rate of algae removal by daphnia showed that this parameter decreased
within the first 3 h after the beginning of incubation in the presence of SDS. Thus, the results of
our experiments demonstrated that SDS decreases the rate of water filtration by the planktonic
crustaceans D. magna.

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________Lazareva E.V., S.A. Ostroumov. Accelerated decrease in surfactant concentration in
the water of a microcosm in the presence of plants: innovations for phytotechnology // Doklady
Akademii Nauk, 2009, Vol. 425, No. 6, pp. 843–845. Tables. Bibliogr. 15 refs. Translated into
Eng.:

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________Lazareva E. V., S. A. Ostroumov Accelerated decrease in surfactant concentration in

the water of a microcosm in the presence of plants: innovations for phytotechnology. - Doklady
Biological Sciences, 2009, Vol. 425, pp. 180–182. Tables. Bibliogr. 15 refs. [Pleiades
Publishing, Ltd.; ISSN 0012-4966; Presented by Academician G.V. Dobrovol’sky, September
26, 2008; DOI: 10.1134/S0012496609020276; original Russian text: E.V. Lazareva, S.A.
Ostroumov, 2009, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2009, Vol. 425, No. 6, pp. 843–845]. It
was discovered that plant biomass help towards restoration the water quality in the system which
was polluted with a synthetic surfactant. Addition of sodium dodecylsulphate (SDS) to water
rapidly changed the surface tension of water in the microcosm. The measurements demonstrated
that the surface tension of water in the microcosm with the macrophyte OST1 restored to the
level which was close to that of pure water within less than three days. As soon as after 46-h
incubation of the system containing the plant phytomass, the surface tension increased
significantly and reached that of distilled water. In the variants with water without plant
phytomass, restoration of the normal surface tension was much longer (about 17 days). The
results demonstrated an accelerated restoration of the normal surface tension which was typical
of pure water in those systems that contained SDS in the presence of the phytomass of the
macrophyte OST1. This is consistent with the conclusion that the macrophyte accelerates the
disappearance of the surfactant from water.______

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________________Solomonova E.A., Ostroumov S.A. Effects of sodium dodecyl sulphate on

the biomass of macrophytes Najas guadelupensis L. / / Toksikologicheskiy Vestnik. 2009.
Number 2. P.32-35. Bibliogr. 10 refs. Microcosms with the macrophytes were studied in
laboratory experiments. The effects of sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) on macrophytes were
studied . The survival and weight of the biomass of macrophytes in a prolonged incubation were
recorded. SDS was added in the form of repeated (recurrent) additions. The increase in the
amount of SDS after each addition was: 0,5, 0,8, 1,7, 8,3, 16,7, 50,0 and 100,0 mg in 1 dm3.
Duration of survival of plants decreased with increasing amount of SDS in one addition. If the
amount of SDS (after a single addition) increased 200 times (from 0.5 to 100 mg / l), the period
of survival decreased 53-fold (from 372 up to 7 days). In the presence of SDS, a decrease in
macrophyte biomass was observed. The degree of the reduction of biomass depended on the total
amount of SDS added to the microcosms.

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________Ostroumov S.A., Kolesov G.M., Sapozhnikov D.Yu. The content of chemical elements
in the shells of molluscs Viviparus viviparus: a study by the neutron activation method of
analysis // Ecological Studies, Hazards, Solutions. 2009. v. 13, p. 113-117.

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________Vorozhun I.M., Ostroumov S.A. Sodium dodecyl sulphate: impact on Daphnia //
Toksikologicheskiy Vestnik. 2009. No. 1. p.46-48. Bibliogr. 14 refs. [It was discovered that
sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) had an inhibitory effect on the filtration activity of the common
species of filter- feeders Daphnia magna].

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________Effects of macrophytes on the surface tension of water solution of sodium dodecyl

sulphate: searching phytotechnologies for water treatment. – Ecological Chemistry
( Ekologicheskaya Khimiya = Экологическая химия, С.-Петербург). 2009. 18(1): 41–45.
[coauthors: Ostroumov S.A., Lasareva E. V., Solomonova E.A.], in Russ.

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________New scientific disciplines in the system of ecological and biospheric sciences:

biochemical ecology and biochemical hydrobiology) // Ecological Chemistry (Ekologicheskaya
Khimiya = Экологическая химия). 2009. Vol.18, No. 2, p. 102-110. Bibliogr. 36 refs.

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________Effects of the synthetic surfactants and chemical mixtures on marine mollusks used in
aquaculture]. - Fisheries Management. [Rybnoe Khozyaistvo = Рыбное хозяйство ] 2009. No.
3. p.92-94. Tabl. 3. Bibliogr. 20 refs. [effects of TDTMA and SDS on Crassostrea gigas; also,
effects of detergents on C. gigas and M. galloprovicialis].

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________Ostroumov S.A., Kolesov G.M. The determination of gold and other chemical
elements in the constituents of the aquatic ecosystems by neutron activation // Water:
Technology and Ecology. 2009. No.2. p. 62 – 68. Tabl. 4. Bibliogr.: 16 refs. Using the method of
neutron activation the concentrations of Au, Hf and Cs were determined for the first time in
biogenic detritus formed during seven months in freshwater microcosms containing organisms
Viviparus viviparus, Unio pictorum, Ceratophyllum demersum. Measured concentrations of gold
in biogenic detritus were as high as 25 – 270 ng/g (for detritus dry weight), average
concentration being as high as 147.5 ng/g. Average concentration of Hf and Cs in biogenic
detritus were of one order higher. Obtained data supplement and confirm the concept of
polyfunctional role of biota in aquatic ecosystems (Ostroumov S.A., Doklady Academy of
Sciences, 2004. V. 396, P.136–141). Key words: aquatic ecosystems, detritus, shellfish, bivalves,
xenobiotics, pollutants, pollution, water quality, freshwater objects, inhibitory effects, sublethal
concentrations, Lymnaea stagnalis, Au, Viviparus viviparus, Unio pictorum, Ceratophyllum
demersum.

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________Ecological Ethics. In: Terminological Dictionary (Thesaurus). Humanities-Oriented
Biology. Moscow University Press. Moscow. 2009. p. 278-283. ISBN 978-5-211-05360-1.

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________Conservation of biodiversity. In: Terminological Dictionary (Thesaurus). Humanities-

Oriented Biology. Moscow University Press. Moscow. 2009. p. 206-221. ISBN 978-5-211-
05360-1.

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________[Book] Gusev M.V., Oleskin A.V., Kartasheva E.R., Kirovskaya T.A., Ostroumov
S.A., Botvinko I.V., Lukyanov A.S., Kaganova Z.V., Yudin B.G., Shulga E.N., Sedov A.E.
Terminological Dictionary (Thesaurus). Humanities-Oriented Biology [=Terminologicheskij
Slovar' (Tezaurus). Gumanitarnaya Biologiya]. Moscow University Press. Moscow. 2009. 368
p. ISBN 978-5-211-05360-1. Bibliography including sites - p. 343-363. English summary -
p.364-366.]

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________Ostroumov S.A. Biodiversity conservation. - In: Gusev M.V., Oleskin A.V.,

Kartasheva E.R., Kirovskaya T.A., Ostroumov S.A., Botvinko I.V., Lukyanov A.S., Kaganova
Z.V., Yudin B.G., Shulga E.N., Sedov A.E. Terminological Dictionary (Thesaurus). Humanities-
Oriented Biology [=Terminologicheskij Slovar' (Tezaurus). Gumanitarnaya Biologiya]. Moscow
University Press. Moscow. 2009. p. 206-221. ISBN 978-5-211-05360-1. Bibliography - p. 353.
Bibliogr. 10 refs.

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________Ostroumov S.A. Ecological (environmental) ethics. - In: Gusev M.V., Oleskin A.V.,
Kartasheva E.R., Kirovskaya T.A., Ostroumov S.A., Botvinko I.V., Lukyanov A.S., Kaganova
Z.V., Yudin B.G., Shulga E.N., Sedov A.E. Terminological Dictionary (Thesaurus). Humanities-
Oriented Biology [=Terminologicheskij Slovar' (Tezaurus). Gumanitarnaya Biologiya]. Moscow
University Press. Moscow. 2009. p. 278-283. ISBN 978-5-211-05360-1. Bibliography - p. 358.
Bibliogr. 7 refs.

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________povtor nizhe Ostroumov S.A., Demina L.L. Ecological biogeochemistry and chemical
elements (As, Со, Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Cd, Cr) in biogenic detritus in marine model ecosystem:
measuring by the method of atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) // Ecological Systems and
Devices [ = Ekologicheskie Sistemy i Pribory = Экологические системы и приборы] 2009.
№9, p. 42-45. Bibliogr. 20 refs. [The detritus that accumulated over > 10 months in the
microcosms with Mytilus galloprovincialis contained As and metals. For the first time the
concentrations of 9 elements in the detritus of this type was measured. Their concentrations
were measured using atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). Their concentrations decreased in
the order: Fe > Mn > Zn > Cu > As > Cr > Pb > Co > Cd. Also, concentrations of the same
elements in Cystoseira crinita were measured. The concentrations decreased in the order: Fe >
Zn > Mn > Cr > As > Cu > Pb > Cd > Co. The new data confirm the recent theory of the
polyfunctional role of the biota in water quality control and water self-purification (Doklady
Akademii Nauk, 2004, V.396. P.136-141; Ekologiya, No. 6, 2005, p. 452–459)].

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________Ostroumov S.A., Kolesov G.M., Moiseeva Yu.A. Studying of aquatic microcosms

with mollusks and plants: chemical elements in detritus. Water: Chemistry and Ecology (=Voda:
Khimiya I ekologiya = Вода: химия и экология) 2009. №8, p. 18-24. Bibliogr. 36 refs. [The
concentrations of some elements in the detritus accumulated over than 7 months in the
microcosms with Viviparus viviparus, Unio pictorum, Ceratophyllum demersum were measured.
Concentrations were determined using atomic absorption spectroscopy. The concentrations of
elements decreased in the order: Ca > Zn > Ba> Na > Br > Ce > Se > Nd > La > U > Hf> Sb >
Th > Sm > S> Cs > Yb >Eu > Au. The new data add some information to the modern vision of
the polyfunctional role of the biota in the functioning of water systems. Key words: Aquatic
ecosystems, detritus, shellfish, bivalves, water quality, freshwater objects, biogeochemistry,
Viviparus viviparus, Unio pictorum, Ceratophyllum demersum].

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________Ostroumov S.A., Shestakova T.V., Kotelevtsev S.V., Solomonova E.A., Golovnya

E.G., Poklonov V.A. Presence of the macrophytes in aquatic system accelerated a decrease in
concentrations of copper, lead and other heavy metals in water. // Water Sector of Russia:
Problems, Technologies, Management (=Vodnoe Khozyaistvo Rossii). 2009. No. 2. p. 58 - 67.
Bibliogr. 17 refs. Changes in the concentrations of heavy metals in the water of experimental
systems were studied. Using the method of inversion voltamperometry, the concentrations of the
heavy metals Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb were measured in the water of the experimental microcosms.
Aquatic macrophytes Ceratophyllum demersum were incubated in the microcosms. The
measured concentrations of all four heavy metals decreased in the microcosms with the
macrophytes much faster than in the control microcosms without any aquatic plants. The new
results complement the previous data on the phytoremediation potential of aquatic plants
(Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Series 16. Biology. — 2007. — № 4. — С.39— 42)].

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________Ostroumov S.A., Demina L.L. Ecological biogeochemistry and chemical elements

(As, Со, Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Cd, Cr) in Cystoseira and in biogenic detritus in marine model
ecosystem: measuring by the method of atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). - Ecological
Systems and Devices (Экологические системы и приборы). 2009. No. 9, p.42-45. [The
detritus that accumulated over > 10 months in the microcosms with Mytilus galloprovincialis
contained As and metals. For the first time the concentrations of 9 elements in the detritus of
this type was measured. Their concentrations were measured using atomic absorption
spectroscopy (AAS). Their concentrations decreased in the order: Fe > Mn > Zn > Cu > As >
Cr > Pb > Co > Cd. Also, concentrations of the same elements in Cystoseira crinita were
measured. The concentrations decreased in the order: Fe > Zn > Mn > Cr > As > Cu > Pb > Cd
> Co].
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________Остроумов С.А., Колесов Г.М. Детектирование в компонентах экосистем золота,

урана и других элементов методом нейтронно-активационного анализа // Экол. системы и
приборы. 2009. № 10. Впервые измерена концентрация золота в биогенном детрите,
образовавшемся в микрокосмах с Viviparus viviparus, Unio pictorum, Ceratophyllum
demersum, с помощью нейтронно-активационного анализа (НАА). Ключевые слова:
водные экосистемы; детрит; моллюски; ксенобиотики; поллютанты.
http://www.tgizd.ru/mag/ecology/ Ostroumov S.A., Kolesov G.M. Detection of gold, uranium,
and other elements in ecosystem’s components using the method of neutron activation analysis.
Экол системы и приборы. 2009. № 10. [The biogenic detritus that accumulated over > 7
months in the microcosms with Viviparus viviparus, Unio pictorum, Ceratophyllum demersum,
contained Au. For the first time the concentrations of Au in the detritus of this type was
measured. The concentration was measured using NAA. Key words: aquatic ecosystems;
detritus; shellfish; bivalves; xenobiotics; pollutants].

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________Ecological processes of decreasing the pollution of aquatic environment and their

practical significance. 1. Elements of theory. // Problems of Biogeochemistry and Geochemiсal
Ecology. 2009 No. 1 (9). p. 129-138. Bibliogr. 49 refs. Abstr. in Engl. and Kazakh [no
coauthors].

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________Kotelevtsev S.V., Ostroumov S.A. Environment, the biosphere and environmental

security: the useful publication in the field of environmental sciences / / Problems of
Biogeochemistry and Geochemical Ecology. 2009. No. 1 (9). p.147. [About the journal «
Environment Ecology and Safety of Life Activity» ISBN 1726-5428].

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________Ostroumov S.A., Shestakova T.V., Kotelevtsev S.V., Solomonova E.A., Golovnya

E.G., Poklonov V.A. Presence of the macrophytes in aquatic system accelerated a decrease in
concentrations of copper, lead and other heavy metals in water. // Water Sector of Russia:
Problems, Technologies, Management (=Vodnoe Khozyaistvo Rossii). 2009. No. 2. p. 58 - 66.
Bibliogr. 17 refs. [Changes in the concentrations of heavy metals in the water of experimental
systems were studied. Using the method of inversion voltamperometry, the concentrations of the
heavy metals Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb were measured in the water of the experimental microcosms.
Aquatic macrophytes Ceratophyllum demersum were incubated in the microcosms. The
measured concentrations of all four heavy metals decreased in the microcosms with the
macrophytes much faster than in the control microcosms without any aquatic plants. The new
results complement the previous data on the phytoremediation potential of aquatic plants
(Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Series 16. Biology. — 2007. — № 4. — С.39— 42)].

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________Ostroumov S.A. New scientific disciplines in the system of ecological and biospheric
sciences: biochemical ecology and biochemical hydrobiology // Ecological Chemistry
[St.Petersburg]. 2009, 18 (2): p.102-110. Bibliogr. 36 refs. The author has previously published
two books in which the conceptual basis of the new scientific discipline of biochemical ecology
were formulated. This direction of scientific research is focused on studies of the role of the
chemicals produced by organisms in the interorganismal interactions, in communication and
regulation of supraorganismal systems. Another part of the science of biochemical ecology deals
with the fate and transformation of external chemicals when they interact with organisms. Both
natural chemicals and the man-made chemicals are of importance for biochemical ecology.
Fundamental concepts of biochemical ecology include ecological chemomediators and
ecological chemoregulators, which have been included into the modern scientific concepts and
are in use in modern ecological literature (see Rozenberg et al., 1999). [http://thesa-
store.com/eco/].

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________Ostroumov S.A., Kotelevtsev S.V., Shestakova T.V., Kolotilova N.N., Poklonov V.A.,
Solomonova E.A. The new on phytoremediation potential: acceleration in the decrease in the
concentrations of heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Zn, Cu) in water in the presence of elodea./ Ecological
Chemistry [St.Petersburg] 2009, 18 (2): p.111-119. Bibliogr. 39 refs. Time-dependent decrease
in the concentrations of heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Zn, Cu) in the water of experimental ecosystems
(microcosms) with elodea Elodea canadensis was studied. Using the method of inversion
voltamperometry, the concentrations of the heavy metals Cd, Zn, Cu, Pb were measured in the
water of the experimental microcosms. Aquatic macrophytes Elodea canadensis were incubated
in the microcosms. The concentration of Pb, Cd and the other metals decreased markedly. In this
experiment, the first convincing evidence was obtained that the measured concentrations of all
four heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Zn, Cu) decreased in the microcosms with the macrophytes Elodea
canadensis much faster than in the control microcosms without any macrophytes, which proves
the new aspect of the phytoremediation potential of elodea. [http://thesa-store.com/eco/].

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________Ostroumov S.A. A comparison of some features and parameters that characterize the
ecosystem and the organism (=Comparing some parameters which characterize ecosystems and
organisms) // Ecological Chemistry [St.Petersburg] 2009, 18 (2): p.120-122. Bibliogr. 12 refs.
[The comparison and juxtaposition of parameters which characterize ecosystems and organisms
was made. Ecosystems and organisms were considered as two types of entities involved in life
phenomena at two levels of organization of living systems. The parameters that were considered
included: the main functions, the main prerequisites for those functions, discreteness and
continuity in space, discreteness and continuity in time, the boundaries, the ability to control the
physical and chemical parameters of the environment, the ability to decrease entropy in energy-
dependent way, etc.] [http://thesa-store.com/eco/]

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________Ostroumov S.A. Biocenotic purification and water quality: the contribution of

environmental repair // Ecological Chemistry [St.Petersburg] 2009, 18 (2): p.123-128. 3 tab.
Bibliogr. 17 refs. New experimental data were obtained that showed that one of the most
important processes of ecological repairing (restoring water quality during the process of
removal of suspended matter by aquatic organisms) is inhibited by a pollutant (a xenobiotic),
which points to some degree of similarity or analogy with the processes of repair at the
molecular-genetic level. The repair at the molecular-genetic level can also be inhibited by some
xenobiotics and have some other attributes that are analogous to those of ecological repairing.
The xenobiotics that produced those negative effects on the processes of the ecological repair of
water quality included various synthetic surfactants, detergents, and metals. New experimental
data on the effects of tetradecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide on marine mussels (Mytilus edulis
× M. galloprovincialis) are presented. [http://thesa-store.com/eco/].

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________vishe povtor Ostroumov S.A., Demina L.L. Ecological biogeochemistry and chemical
elements (As, Со, Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Cd, Cr) in biogenic detritus in marine model ecosystem:
measuring by the method of atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) // Ecological Systems and
Devices (= Ekologicheskie sistemy i pribory). 2009. No. 9, p. 42-45. Bibliogr. 20 refs. Abstract:
The detritus that accumulated over > 10 months in the microcosms with Mytilus
galloprovincialis contained As and metals. For the first time the concentrations of 9 elements
in the detritus of this type was measured. Their concentrations were measured using atomic
absorption spectroscopy (AAS). Their concentrations decreased in the order: Fe > Mn > Zn >
Cu > As > Cr > Pb > Co > Cd. Also, concentrations of the same elements in Cystoseira crinita
were measured. The concentrations decreased in the order: Fe > Zn > Mn > Cr > As > Cu > Pb
> Cd > Co. The new data confirm the recent theory of the polyfunctional role of the biota in
water quality control and water self-purification (Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2004, V.396. P.136-
141; Ekologiya, No. 6, 2005, p. 452–459). http://scipeople.ru/users/2943391/

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________Ostroumov S.A., Kapitsa A.P., Kotelevtsev S.V., Golovnya E.G., Gorshkova O.M.,
Lasareva E.V., McCutcheon S., Shestakova T.V., Solomonova E.A. Innovative
phytotechnology: contributing to the best available technologies of complex control and
prevention of water pollution. - Ecol. Stud., Haz., Solutions, 2009, v.13. p.101-103. Bibliogr.
14 refs. Phytoremediation of perchlorate, surfactants, heavy metals (Pb, Cu, Zn, Cd).

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________Ostroumov S.A., Kolesov G.M. Detection of gold, uranium, and other elements in
ecosystem’s components using the method of neutron activation analysis. - Ecological system
and devices (Ehkologicheskie sistemy i pribory = E'kologicheskie sistemy i pribory). 2009. No.
10. p. 37-40. www.ecoguild.ru/docs/2009esip10.doc;
http://www.tgizd.ru/mag/ecology/ecology_9_10_7.shtml; [The biogenic detritus that
accumulated over > 7 months in the microcosms with Viviparus viviparus, Unio pictorum,
Ceratophyllum demersum, contained Au. This is the first time the concentrations of Au in the
detritus of this type was measured. The concentration was measured using NAA. Key words:
aquatic ecosystems; detritus; shellfish; bivalves; xenobiotics; pollutants].

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________Ostroumov S.A., Shestakova T.V. Decreasing in the measurable concentrations of Cu,

Zn, Cd, Pb in the water of the experimental systems with Ceratophyllum demersum:
phytoremediation potential. - Doklady Akademii Nauk. 2009, vol. 428, No. 2, p. 282–285.
Bibliogr. 15 refs. Aquatic plants C. demersum induced a removal of the heavy metals Cu, Zn,
Cd, and Pb from water. Using the method of inversion voltamperometry, the concentrations of
the heavy metals Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb were measured in the water of the experimental microcosms.
Aquatic macrophytes Ceratophyllum demersum were incubated in some of the microcosms. The
measured concentrations of all four metals decreased in the microcosms with macrophytes much
faster than in the control microcosms without any macrophytes.
scipeople.com/publication/66711/; http://www.maikonline.com/maik/showArticle.do?
auid=VAFZC61RXH&lang=en

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________Ostroumov S.A., Shestakova T.V. Decreasing the measurable concentrations of Cu,

Zn, Cd, and Pb in the water of the experimental systems containing Ceratophyllum demersum:
The phytoremediation potential // Doklady Biological Sciences, 2009 (October), vol. 428, no. 1,
p. 444-447. Finding: aquatic plants C. demersum induced a removal of the heavy metals Cu, Zn,
Cd, and Pb from water. [publisher: MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica] DOI:
10.1134/S0012496609050159; www.springerlink.com/index/ML1062K7271L318N.pdf;
https://www.researchgate.net/file.FileLoader.html?key=8fd8998627b86102db72c9b237c25054;
http://sites.google.com/site/9dbs444/decreasing-the-measurable-concentrations-of-cu-zn-cd-and-
pb-in-the-water; PMID: 19994786 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE];

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________Ostroumov, S.A., Solomonova E.A. Liquid detergent «Amway Dish Drops»: the
impact on water macrophytes Elodea canadensis // Toxicological Bulletin (=Toksikologicheskij
vestnik), 2009, No. 3, p.48-49. Bibliogr. 5 refs. This is the fist time the phytotoxicity of dish
washing detergent to aquatic macrophytes was reported. The phytotoxic effects of the liquid
detergent for dishes «Amway Dish Drops» on the viability of aquatic macrophytes Elodea
canadensis in a microcosm were studied. After three days of the damaging effects of the
detergent, the effect on the plants was observed at a concentration of «Amway Dish Drops» 300
mg / l and above. The damaging effects manifested as the reduction of the turgor pressure,
resulting in the apical parts of shoots bent down (there was no shoots with apical parts growing
upwards). With more prolonged incubation (over 10 days), the damaging effects observed at
lower concentrations of «Amway Dish Drops»: starting with the concentration of 200 mg / l and
above.

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________Ostroumov S.A., Kolesov G.M., Poklonov V.A., Kotelevtsev S.V. Water macrophyte
as a factor of potential concentration: interactions with metal nanoparticles. - Ecological
Chemistry (Экологическая химия). 2009, 18(4): 222-228. Bibliogr. 33 refs. Experiments with
nanoparticles were carried out in aquatic microcosms. For the first time it is shown that the metal
(Au) in significant amount bind to the living biomass of the aquatic macrophyte Ceratophyllum
demersum. As a result of the binding and/or concentration, the amount of Au in the phytomass
increased over the background level by the factor of 430. The amount of gold in the biomass
was detected using neutron activation analysis (NAA). The new data added some new
information to the modern vision of the polyfunctional role of aquatic organisms (the biota) in
the migration of elements in water ecosystems.

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________Ostroumov S.A. Relationship between water self-purification and environmental repair

processes // Water: Chemistry and Ecology. 2009. (Dec). No. 12, p. 29-34. ISSN: 2072-8158.
http://scipeople.com/uploads/materials/4389/Water_Chem&Ec_12%2709_pp_29-34.pdf;
http://scipeople.com/publication/67785/; ABSTRACT. The experimental results were obtained
to demonstrate that one of the most important ecological rehabilitation processes (the process of
improving water quality by the removal of suspended matter from water by filter-feeders) is
inhibited by a pollutant (a xenobiotic). This fact and some other considerations suggest some
analogy between repair processes at genetic and ecosystem level. Author’s experiments have
shown that the group of xenobiotics which cause adverse effects on ecological mechanisms for
improving water quality includes surface-active agents (surfactants), detergents, heavy metals,
and other chemicals. The author’s experiments have discovered the inhibitory effects of
tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide on the filtration activity of the natural hybrid mussel
population of Mytilus edulis × M. galloprovincialis. KEY WORDS: water quality, pollutants,
xenobiotics, rehabilitation, surfactants, detergents, metals, tetradecyltrimethylammonium
bromide, marine mussels, Mytilus edulis, Mytilus galloprovincialis.

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________Voronina N.V., Gorshkova O.M., Zagidullin R.M., Kapitsa A.P., Krasnushkin A.V.,
Nikiforov I.D., Ostroumov S.A., Praschikina E.M., Spiridonova O.Yu., Churkin V.S. Experience
of ecological and geochemical works carrying out in “Methods of determination of pollutants in
environment” course // Vestnik of IIUEPS (Collection of scientific proceedings of International
Independent Environmental-Politological University). Moscow. IIUEPS Press, 2009, p. 192-196.
Bibliogr. 3 refs.

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________Ostroumov S.A., Kotelevtsev S.V. On the role and place of the concepts of
environmental security in the biological and chemical safety. - Ecological Studies, Hazards,
Solutions, 2009, vol. 13, p.118-121. Bibliogr. 9 refs.

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________Ostroumov S.A. Biocontrol of the pollution of aquatic environment: elements of

theory. – Toksikologicheskiy Vestnik. 2009. [Ecological mechanisms of water self-purification
in aquatic bodies and stream are analyzed. The theory of them is presented, which includes the
analysis of the polyfunctional role of organisms in water purification. The results of new
experiments of author on aquatic organisms, including aquatic macrophytes and filter-feeders,
are used]. in press.

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________Ostroumov S.A. Biocontrol of the pollution of aquatic environment: issues of
rehabilitation and remediation, including phytoremediation and zooremediation. -
Toksikologicheskiy Vestnik. [Phytoremediation, algaeremediation and zooremediation are
considered in connection with search for ecotechnologies of removal of pollutants (including
toxicants) from water. As part of the analysis of the role of organisms, we included the data on
heavy metals, that are involved by mollusks into biogeochemical flows as a result of their
removal from water column of aquatic bodies. On the basis of the theory, some conclusions were
formulated that are relevant of sustainable use of natural resources]. in press

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________Ostroumov S.A., Kolesov G.M., Toderas I.K., Eni A. Detection of elements (La, Au,
U, Cs, Ba, Na, Ce, Se, Sb, Hf, Th, Sc, Sm and others) in biogenic detritus of aquatic microcosms
with Viviparus viviparus, Unio pictorum, Ceratophyllum demersum. – Bulletin of Acad. Sci. of
Moldova. Life Sciences [Izvestia Akademii Nauk Moldovy. Nauki o zhizni] (ISSN 1857-064X).
2009. No. 2 (308), p.85-95. Bibliogr. 47 refs, tab 4. Annotations in Rus. (p.186 ) and Eng.
(p.179). [Methos: NAA].

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________Ostroumov S.A., Demina L.L. Role of biogenic detritus of aquatic systems in

accumulation of metals and metalloids as exemplified by eight heavy metals and arsenic. –
Water Sector of Russia (Vodnoe Khozyaistvo Rossii, ISSN 1999-4508). 2010, No. 1, p. 60-69.
Bibliogr. 24 refs. Annotation in English (p.106). Detritus that accumulated over 8 months in the
freshwater microcosms with molluscs Viviparus viviparus and macrophytes Ceratophyllum
demersum contained As and metals. Their concentrations in the detritus were measured using
atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). The concentrations decreased in the order: Fe > Mn >
Zn > Cu > Pb >As> Со > Cd > Cr. If a mixture of some metals was added to the water of the
microcosm, those metals (Со, Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Со, Cd, Cr) were found in the detritus at
concentrations higher than in the control. The most pronounced increase was found for the
concentration of Cd (increase by the factor of over 3), Со (increase by the factor of over 13),
and for Cr (increase by the factor of over 150). The new data confirm the recent theory of the
polyfunctional role of the biota in water quality control and water self-purification (Doklady
Akademii Nauk, 2004, V.396. P.136-141; Ekologiya, No. 6, 2005, с. 452–459).

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________Ostroumov S. A., Kolesov G. M. The aquatic macrophyte Ceratophyllum demersum

immobilizes Au nanoparticles after their addition to water. - Doklady Biological Sciences, 2010,
Vol. 431, pp. 124–127. [© Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., ISSN 0012-4966]. Original Russian Text
© S.A. Ostroumov, G.M. Kolesov, 2010, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2010, Vol. 431,
No. 4, pp. 566–569. Bibliogr. 15 refs. Presented by Academician M.A. Fedonkin July 31, 2009.
Received February 11, 2009. DOI: 10.1134/S0012496610020158.
http://scipeople.com/publication/69766/ . This is the first time it was shown that the
nanoparticles of gold (Au) in substantial amount bind to the living biomass of the aquatic
macrophyte, Ceratophyllum demersum. The concentrations of Au were measured in the samples
of the phytomass using neutron activation analysis (NAA). As a result of the binding and/or
immobilization of the nanoparticles, the amount of Au in the samples of the phytomass
increased manifold (by a factor of 430) above the background level of gold in the plant tissues.
The increase was by two orders of magnitude. The new data added some new information to the
modern vision of the multifunctional role of the biota in the migration of elements in aquatic
ecosystems. Also, the result added new information to the studies of interactions of Au with
organisms that may contribute to new biotechnologies.

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________Ostroumov S.A., and Demina L.L. Detection of heavy metals (Pb, Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Cd,
Cr) in biogenic detritus in microcosms with freshwater organisms. – Ecological Chemistry. 2010,
19, No.1. p.44-48. in Russ. Abs. in Eng. Bibliogr.15 refs.

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