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Birds as Bioindicators of Pollution in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments [PDF]
, 2012 [eng] Birds have been widely used as bioindicators. In this study we face the use of birds as bioindicators of metal pollution in two different scenarios of contamination: one that takes place in an aquatic environment, the Ebro river basin, and a second
Cotín Martínez, Javier
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Pharmaceutics, 2023 A biomarker is any measurable biological moiety that can be assessed and measured as a potential index of either normal or abnormal pathophysiology or pharmacological responses to some treatment regimen.
Anas Ahmad, M. Imran, H. Ahsan
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Exploring diatom diversity through cultures - a case study from the Bow River, Canada
Journal of Limnology, 2022 Diatom cultures can help answer taxonomic, biogeographic and ecological questions on a local and global scale. Unialgal cultures are derived from a single cell and provide abundant material for morphological and molecular analyses.
Oliver Skibbe +3 more
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ISME Communications, 2023 Soil microbiomes are sensitive to current and previous soil conditions, and bacterial ‘bioindicators’ of biological, physical, and chemical soil properties have considerable potential for soil health assessment.
Roland C. Wilhelm +4 more
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Lichens as spatially transferable bioindicators for monitoring nitrogen pollution.
Environmental Pollution, 2023 Excess nitrogen is a pollutant and global problem that harms ecosystems and can severely affect human health. Pollutant nitrogen is becoming more widespread and intensifying in the tropics.
Jay Delves +16 more
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A Review of on Environmental Pollution Bioindicators [PDF]
Pollution, 2018 Qualitative status of the environment is signaled by a group of indicators, known as bioindicators, several of which are responsible for showing progressive impacts of different types of pollutants. Having addressed the influence of various bioindicators
Nayyab Asif +2 more
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Common weeds as heavy metal bioindicators: a new approach in biomonitoring
Scientific Reports, 2023 Environmental pollution by heavy metals affects both urban and non-urban areas of Europe and the world. The use of bioindicator plants for the detection of these pollutants is a common practice.
A. Cakaj +5 more
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Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2020 Planktic diatom ecology in the mountain lakes of the northern European Alps has only been studied sparsely so far. To fill this knowledge gap, the driving parameters of planktic diatom assemblage composition in the euphotic zones of twenty lakes located ...
Stefan Ossyssek +3 more
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Assessment of the impact of copper mining and related industrial activities on aquatic macroinvertebrate communities of the Pek River (Serbia) [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2021 The upper stretch of the Pek River is located in proximity to one of the largest mining sites in Serbia. To estimate the influence of copper mining on river biota, the quantitative and qualitative macroinvertebrate community structure was analyzed, and ...
Čanak-Atlagić Jelena +7 more
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Heliyon, 2023 Studies of plastic contamination in freshwater ecosystems and their biota remain scarce, despite the fact that the vast majority of plastic waste initially passes through lotic ecosystems.
N. Koutsikos +5 more
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