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ELF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AS A NEW ECOLOGICAL PARAMETER
Teraurjants,
N.A.,
Sidyakin,
V.G.,
Makejev,
V.B.,
Simferopol State University,
USSR.
Vladimirsky,
B.M.,
Crimean Astrophysics Observatory,
USSR.
Summary
A short review of the investigated problem
'Solar activity and
the Bios-
phere’
is presented
below.
The research was being carried out by the Sim-
feropol State University,
the Crimean Medical Institute and the Crimean
Astrophysics Observatory in the years 1972-1985. The main conclusion is
that the effect of solar activity upon medical and biological processes can
be explained if one takes
into account a new essential parameter in ecology
- an electromagnetic background field at
the Earth’s surface
in the VLF -
ELF range.
Introduction
The problem of
the effect of solar activity upon the Biosphere
is an old
controversy and has had a long history.
At present
the problem in question
hardly seems
to attract the attention of scientists.
The overwhelming ma-
jority of researchers considers
the effects of solar activity on the bio-
phere
to
be a myth or at least a pseudoscientific activity of some small
groups of
’adherents'.
However,
we think that there
is no basis
for such
an opinion.
For the last
ten years strong empirical evidence of correlations
between
the indices of solar (geomagnetic) activity and some biological
parameters
(or medical statistical data)
has been obtained.
In lots of ca-
ses
these correlations have a strong statistical significance,
they are
based
on a large body of measurements and have been verified by independant
groups
in different laboratories.
Unfortunately,
there is no possibility
here
to present a full survey of the literature on the problem.
Some impor-
tant results were published
in the collections of the articles edited
by
Gnevyshev,
M.N.
and 01’,
A. I.
in
1972
/l/ and
1983 111
(one more paper
is
being
prepared:
/3/).
An extensive discussion of
the problem under study
is given
by
the authors of the present paper in their monograph /A/.
The interdependence of solar activity variations and biological
processes
is a widely-spread phenomenon.
It has revealed the major divisions of bio-
logical systematics including bacteriology,
entomology,
ornitology,
etc.
The same type of regularity
is observed in many topics of medicine,
such as
cardiovascular diseases,
ophtalmology ,
nervous system diseases,
psychiatry,
pediatrics,
etc.
All
the data are conditioned by
uncontrolled environ-
mental factors.
The most essential feature of this operating agent can be
defined
by comparing
the results of various observations. The main peculi-
arities are as follows:
.
The operating physical agent penetrates into a laboratory room but
it
is modified
by an electromagnetic screen.
2.
This agent
is constantly present,
and yet
it has diurnal and seasonal
variations.
3.
Some parameters of
the agent
(intensity?) change with variation of
the geographic latitude from the equator to the pole.
4.
The modification of
the agent parameters due to solar activity vari-
ations
is controlled both
by solar wind variations and ionospheric
disturbances.
Of all
the known physical factors among the above mentioned characteristics
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the variations of the Earth's electromagnetic field intensity in the very
low frequency - extremely low frequency range satisfy very well. They are
the VLF emission of the magnetosphere,
the atmospheric and geomagnetic
micropulsations.
Nowadays the electromagnetic nature of the operating fac-
tors is established by considering the discovery of the biological sys-
tem's very high sensitivity to electromagnetic fields in the VLF range.
This discovery seems to be the most important event throughout the long
history
of investigating the problem in question;
We present here a short review including the major results of the inves-
tigations done by the researchers of the Simferopol State University,
the
Crimean Medical Institute and the Crimean Astrophysics Observatory.
In
this paper we shall confine ourselves to exemplifying the most relevant
findings without going into additional details
(see also
/4/ and the refe
rences therein)
.
Influence of very weak electromagnetic fields
Several types
of experiments with small intensity alternating magnetic
fields have been carried out.
Fig.
1 shows typical results obtained
for
pigeons. The birds were exposed to a magnetic field of 8 Hz-frequency
(in-
tensity - 5000 nT)
for 3 hours per day.
To test the nervous system perfor-
mance the capacity of fulfilling classical conditioned reflexes was used.
In fig.
this is shown by the upper curves as a function of time
(1: mo-
del •
2:
experiment).
One can see some reduction of the reflexes following
the exposure to the field
(up
to 70%).
It should
be noted that during mag-
netic storms the reduction of the reflex performance was also observed
(for details see /5/).
An influence of alternating magnetic fields on the
nervous system of birds measured in different tests was revealed to be
de
pendent upon the electromagnetic field parameters. To study these depen
dences large numbers of experiments were carried
out.
Spectrum measurement of alternating magnetic field
Biological activity
Special series of experiments were done
to study the frequency-dependent
field activity.
Up
to
15 different biological indices for rats were mea-
sured for each value of frequency.
Forty frequencies ranging from 0.01
Hz
to
100 Hz for the three intensity levels of 5000 nT,
500 nT and
5 nT were
analysed. The experiments were carried out in a special screened chamber.
An exposure of
3 hour duration was used in each experiment. The typical
situation is given in
fig. 2.
Here the ordinate points
to the activity of
one of the enzymes in the rat's blood. The abscissa indicates frequency
(Hz).
Vertical lines at the bottom are measures of the statistical signi-
ficance of the difference between the model and the experiment.
It is evi-
dent that
the biological effect of the field has
a strong dependence upon
the frequency:
at some frequency values the enzymatic activity
is enlarged,
at
the other it
is decreased.
Several hundreds of experiments were perfor-
med
to verify the reproductivity of measurements.
As a result,
active
frequencies were revealed. Within the above-mentioned range these frequen-
cies are as follows:
0.02 Hz,
0.5-0.6 Hz,
5-6 Hz,
8-11
Hz.
One of these
'active'
frequencies is close to the standard frequency of Pc 3 geomagne-
tic raicropulsations
(0.02 Hz).
An other such frequency coincides with the
well-known fundamental frequency of the ionospheric waveguide
(8 Hz), 'me
activity spectrum has been found out
to
be partly dependant upon the field
intensity.
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