ABSTRACT
Experience indicates the negative impacts of surfactants and surfactant-containing preparations on representatives of the major functional ecosystemic blocks, including both autotrophic and heterotrophic organisms (see above). The author realizes that interpretation of the results obtained requires great caution and there are many factors that can affect the manifestation of biological effects of synthetic surfactants in more complex systems. Therefore, direct transfer of the laboratory results to natural ecosystems is inappropriate. The need for caution in interpreting experimental results was emphasized by N.S. Stroganov (1976, 1979, 1981), V.I. Lukyanenko (1967, 1983), S.A. Patin (1979), B.A. Flerov (1989), and other investigators when they analyzed the problems of using the results of laboratory experiments for understanding the situation in ecosystems under conditions of anthropogenic pollution.
