Birds as Monitors of Environmental Change

by R.W. Furness (Editor), J.J.D. Greenwood (Editor)

Overview

Birds as Monitors of Environmental Change looks at how bird populations are affected by pollutants, water quality, and other physical changes and how this scientific knowledge can help in predicting the effects of pollutants and other physical changes in the environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789401513241
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	03/12/2013
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1 Can birds be used to monitor the environment?.- 2 Environmental changes.- 3 Birds as monitors of pollutants.- 4 Birds as monitors of radionuclide contamination.- 5 Birds as indicators of changes in water quality.- 6 Birds as indicators of change in marine prey sks.- 7 Integrated population monitoring: detecting the effects of diverse changes.

Editorial Reviews

provides excellent summaries of the state of knowledge of birds as indicators for a variety of environmental changes and places this topic within the broader context of monitoring theory - Conservation Biology; ...essential reading for anyone interested in the ecology of birds, ecotoxicology or in the potential use of bioindicator organisms as monitors of man-made, and other, environmental change -TREE; Explains the principles and practices of using birds not only to monitor changes in the environment, but also to indicate which changes are significant and need to be monitored |o SciTech Book News |d April 1994

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