Birds as Monitors of Environmental Change

1. Front Matter

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2. Can birds be used to monitor the environment?

   • R. W. Furness, J. J. D. Greenwood, P. J. Jarvis

   Pages 1-41

3. Environmental changes

   • P. J. Jarvis

   Pages 42-85

4. Birds as monitors of pollutants

   • R. W. Furness

   Pages 86-143

5. Birds as monitors of radionuclide contamination

   • I. Lehr Brisbin Jr.

   Pages 144-178

6. Birds as indicators of changes in water quality

   • S. J. Ormerod, S. J. Tyler

   Pages 179-216

7. Birds as indicators of change in marine prey stocks

   • W. A. Montevecchi

   Pages 217-266

8. Integrated population monitoring: detecting the effects of diverse changes

   • J. J. D. Greenwood, S. R. Baillie, H. Q. P. Crick, J. H. Marchant, W. J. Peach

   Pages 267-342

9. Back Matter

   Pages 343-356

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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.

• bird
• contamination
• environment
• pollutants
• tropics
• water quality
• ecotoxicology

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

• Applied Ornithology Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

  R. W. Furness

• British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, Norfolk, UK

  J. J. D. Greenwood

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