Birds as Monitors of Environmental Change

• 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.

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