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Since birds are often near the top of food chains and are relatively easily studied, they have often been studied as biological indicators of changes in the environment. Although there is some controversy over exactly how bird populations can be used as predictors of environmental changes, ever since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring they have been recognized as highly sensitive to pollution and other changes in the environment. This book takes a fresh look at this subject. The text 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.

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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

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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