Abstract
Based on analysis of F.D. Mordukhai-Boltovskoy’s publications, this paper examines the history of studies of the impact of thermal and nuclear power plants, which were originally performed under the classical “Haeckelian” ecological paradigm: the external effect of technogenic factors on aquatic ecosystems and biota. The decline in interest in the problem was not associated with a decrease in the technogenic impact or changes in the energy industry. However, the paradigm itself is changing in association with the emergence of the concept of a technoecosystem. The cooling ponds of thermal power plants (TPPs) and nuclear power plants (NPPs) can be used as models of climate change, particularly climate warming. The materials obtained in studies of the effects of technogenic temperature rise are still underused by hydrobiologists studying climate change and its potential consequences.
Highlights
Mordukhai-Boltovskoy’s publications, this paper examines the history of studies of the impact of thermal and nuclear power plants, which were originally performed under the classical “Haeckelian” ecological paradigm: the external effect of technogenic factors on aquatic ecosystems and biota
The materials obtained in studies of the effects of technogenic temperature rise are still underused by hydrobiologists studying climate change and its potential consequences
More than half a century ago, Filaret Dmitrievich Mordukhai-Boltovskoy became one of the founders of a new direction in applied hydrobiology in the USSR, i.e., studies of the impact of anthropogenic factors on aquatic ecosystems associated with the operation of thermal and nuclear power plants
Summary
More than half a century ago, Filaret Dmitrievich Mordukhai-Boltovskoy became one of the founders of a new direction in applied hydrobiology in the USSR, i.e., studies of the impact of anthropogenic factors on aquatic ecosystems associated with the operation of thermal and nuclear power plants. The hydrobiological paradigm of the functioning of communities and ecosystems was similar to that prevailing in ecology: an organism (population, community, ecosystem) exists and performs its functions in a certain field of environmental factors, which in one way or another affect a given object It was within this paradigm that studies of the effect of power plants on aquatic ecosystems were developed. Mordukhai-Boltovskoy provided extensive bibliography as by that time, world literature had already numbered many hundreds of publications, including monographic works
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