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Biotic regulation concept has profound implications for every aspect of human life, which is itself unthinkable without biotic regulation. In this section we present documents devoted to issues of everybody's concern like weather, climate, energy or demography. They were written at various stages of the concept development. The Russian version of this section is somewhat more extensive. Your comments are welcome. Please, use our comment form. Many documents still reside on our old website, but will ultimately move here. Main documents are listed in reverse chronological order.

Homo sapiens — the rightless animal? (on humanitarian disaster of a global scale)

14 February 2009.

Those Russians, did they use to have rivers? On the question of building the Evenkiyskaya (Turukhanskaya) hydropower on the Nizhnyaya Tunguska river (A. Nefiodov)

18 August 2008.

Oil and economic slavery in the 21st century

3 August 2008.

How much, whom to, and why does the civilization overpay for oil?

14 February 2008.

Demography: Survivorship Essentials: Neglected aspects of the population numbers' problem

14 February 2007.

Forest, water and weather or where is European winter?

8 December 2006.

What are the causes of the degradation of the biosphere?

14 February 2006.

On the occasion of Russia signing the Kyoto protocol: Climate warming or climate collapse?

14 February 2005.

Empirical evidence for the biotic regulation concept

2 March 2002.

Biotic regulation and the concepts of genetic adaptation and nutrient limitation

6 October 2001.

Biotic regulation overview

6 October 2001.

SERIES Ecology and Education Magazine (PDF files, in Russian):

2007: Human thinking, longevity and the problems of living matter orderliness [1.2 Mb]
2006: Rivers on Earth. Will they be flowing for ever? [0.8 Mb]
2004: Scientific bases for nature conservation strategies [0.4 Mb]
2001: Pollution of the environment by audible information [0.3 Mb]
2001: Information in the animate and inanimate worlds [1.2 Mb]

BR AS MIRRORED in the media

Re: Life's metabolic optimum:
New Scientist: Most lifeforms dance to the same metabolic beat
New Scientist: Is there an optimum speed of life?
WIRED: Pound for Pound, All Life Uses Same Amount of Energy
GAZETA.RU: Power of biological processes in all living beings appears to be surprisingly uniform
University of California, Riverside: Ecologists Say Metabolism Accounts for Why Natural Selection Favors Only Some Species
Stellenbosch University, South Africa: Gram for gram, it costs about the same amount to live, whether bacterium or whale
See also here.
 
The atlantes hold the sky. A new look on the driving forces of the continental moisture cycle. I.E. Reif writes about the biotic pump of atmospheric moisture in Nauka i zhizn ("Science and Life"). ("Nauka i zhizn", No. 9 (2008), pp. 2-9, 0.9 Mb, translated from Russian). Article link on the journal's website: http://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/14638/.
 
Forest pump of Professor Gorshkov. R. Nudelman.
Znanie - sila (Knowledge is power), October 2007 (in Russian).
See also Forest pump of Professor Gorshkov. R. Nudelman.
Okna, Israel. 25 May 2007 (in Russian).
 
Savanization of the Amazon can cause climate impact in the Country: Studies show that the shrinking of Forests must affect winds, increase El Nino frequency and provoke drought (PDF, 0.4 Mb)
O Estado de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 8 April 2007 (in Portuguese).
 
Who broke the climate pump? Ye. Kokurina.
Moscow News, 19 January 2007 (in Russian).
 
Halfway between the happy end and the Apocalypse. I. Frankfurter.
[PDF, 0.5 Mb] Vesti Jerusalem, 9 February 2006.
 
Carbon devourers. Izvestiya Nauka, No. 4 (82), 24 January 2003 (in Russian).
A short adapted note (and our commentary to it) reviewing the results obtained by Gorshkov and Makarieva (2002).
 
Our breath damps the hell fire. A. Valentinov.
Rossiiskaya gazeta, N 86 (2954), 17 May 2002 (in Russian).
Our commentary to the article by A. Valentinov (in Russian).

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