Journal Article entitled: Imbalance of Factors Providing Control of Unicellular Plankton Populations Exposed to Anthropogenic Impact.

Explanation of what is innovative. Author: S. A. Ostroumov, Moscow State University, Fulbright Award recipient; Doklady Biological Sciences, 2001, Volume 379, Numbers 1-6, Pages 341-343.
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KEY WORDS: plankton, balance, regulation, aquatic ecosystem, marine ecology, freshwater, bivalve mollusks, mussels, oysters, shellfish, anthropogenic, pollution, surfactants, detergents, toxicity, ecotoxicology, new environmental hazards, water filtering, filter-feeders ** WHAT IS INNOVATIVE in this paper? What is the FIRST and NEW: 1. The first in-depth ANALYSIS BOTH EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL- OF THE TOTAL SUM OF NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS THAT CONTROL THE BALANCE OF PLANKTON (including phytoplankton) populations in freshwater and marine environments. This control of the balance is a key to environmental safety and sustainability of water sources. 2. A NEW QUANTITATIVE PARAMETER AND FORMULA WAS SUGGESTED and measured in this paper: the efficiency of cell elimination from water by filter-feeders, ECE. 3. NEW EXPERIMENTAL DATA on environmental hazards from seven kinds of the commercially available laundry detergents to aquatic invertebrates (filter-feeders, bivalves). These detergents slowed down (inhibited) the rate of water filtration by the mollusks. As a result, the elimination (removal) of plankton cells from water decreased. The inhibition of water filtration was discovered in the following experiments (at the concentrations of the chemical, mg/l, in brackets): (1) Detergent OMO, freshwater mollusk Unio tumidus, (50); (2) Detergent Losk-Universal, marine mollusk Mytilus galloprovincialis, (7); (3) Detergent Tide-Lemon, marine mollusk Mytilus galloprovincialis, (50); (4) Detergent IXI, marine mollusk M. galloprovincialis, (10); (5) Detergent Deni-Automat, marine mollusk Crassostrea gigas, (30); (6) Detergent Lanza, marine mollusk Crassostrea gigas, (20); (7) Detergent Vesna-Delikat, marine mollusk Crassostrea gigas, (1); The tables in the paper, with the innovative data: Factors of regulation of unicellular plankton abundance (Tab.1); effects of surfactants and detergents on phytoplankton abundance (Tab.2);7 detergents inhibit filtration of 3 species of marine and freshwater mollusks (Tab.3); Mytilus galloprovincialis eliminates from water the cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and algae Pavlova lutheri = M. lutheri as a result of filtration (comparing the 2 processes at the same time, Tab. 4).

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