Birds as Monitors of Environmental Change
Published on 3. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 356 pages
978-94-015-1324-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 1994More details
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
12 s/w Abbildungen
X, 356 p. 12 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-015-1324-1 (9789401513241)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-015-1322-7
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
R.W. Furness | J.J.D. Greenwood
Birds as Monitors of Environmental Change
E-Book
04/2013
Springer
€96.29
Available for download
Robert W. Furness | J.J.D. Greenwood
Birds as Monitors of Environmental Change
Book
08/1993
Chapman and Hall
€89.28
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Content
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 stocks.- 7 Integrated population monitoring: detecting the effects of diverse changes.