Is biodiversity instrumental for increasing stability of aquatic ecosystems? Yes!

The reason for this answer is as following. The role of biodiversity in benefiting stability of ecosystems is a matter of hot dispute. Not much was known on whether biodiversity is instrumental for increasing stability of aquatic ecosystems. A research project was done that is filling the gap in knowledge on this controversial issue. A paper was published that provides a fresh analysis and new vision of how biodiversity helps towards better stability of aquatic habitats, i.e. water quality. The author made experiments with filter-feeders (bivalves) and as result of an analysis of his experimental data, he formulated the following suggestion: to maintain water quality, it is vital to protect the functionally active biodiversity of water ecosystems. In other words, according to his vision, the protection of functionally active biodiversity, including filter-feeders, is a key to maintenance of water quality. In the paper some  new facts on interactions of pollutants with filter-feeders (marine mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis; oysters Crassostrea gigas Thunberg) were reported. A string of papers that were published by the same author afterwards supported the main conclusions of the paper under discussion  [Ostroumov S. A. Biodiversity protection and quality of water: the role of feedbacks in ecosystems.- Doklady Biological Sciences. 2002 (January). Volume 382, Numbers 1-6, p.18-21.; ISSN0012-4966 (Print) 1608-3105 (Online).

DOI 10.1023/A:1014465220673]. http://www.springerlink.com/content/p89cugy9ddk053g7/;

Key words

xenobiotics, water resources, water filtration, suspension feeders, pollution, pollutants, plankton populations, phytoplankton control, water quality, ecological stability,

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Issues that were considered: 

pellets, new_hazards, mussels, marine, management, man-made_impact, man-made_effects, invertebrates, innovations, hydrosphere, hazards, freshwater, filter-feeders, environmetal_safety, environmental_toxicology, environmental_chemistry, environment_protection, ecotoxicology, ecosystem_services, ecosystems, ecosystem, ecological_hazard, ecohazards, detergents, chemical_preparations, chemical_pollution, bivalvia, bivalves, biosphere, biogeochemical, biogenic_migration, bioassays, benthos, assessment, aquatic_organisms, aquatic_ecosystems, aquatic_biota, anthropogenic_impact, anthropogenic_effects, algae