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Can birds be used to monitor the environment?

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Birds as Monitors of Environmental Change

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The need for environmental monitoring has never been greater. Burgeoning human populations, the greater demands they make on resources, and technological developments all result in massive and continuing increase in the impact of people on their environments. We have passed through a period in which environmental monitoring has had little academic respectability. This has been to some extent justified, for many monitoring programmes have had poorly-defined objectives and poorly-designed methodology, producing few or no useful results. Monitoring has also suffered because it relies largely on correlative analyses rather than on the manipulative experiments that have been more fashionable among ecologists.

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Furness, R.W., Greenwood, J.J.D., Jarvis, P.J. (1993). Can birds be used to monitor the environment?. In: Furness, R.W., Greenwood, J.J.D. (eds) Birds as Monitors of Environmental Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1322-7_1

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