Techniques used to measure the effect of environmental change on the biological species present. This may be measured in terms of numbers present, or diversity, or more often by indicator species, whose disappearance or disturbance gives an early warning of the degradation of an ecosystem.
References
- School of Life Science, University of Sussex, UK, 2004. (http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/teaching/biology/cws/etx/Ecotoxicology_Lecture1.pdf)
GEO-1-6
Techniques used to measure the effect of environmental change on the biological species present. This may be measured in terms of numbers present, or diversity, or more often by indicator species, whose disappearance or disturbance gives an early warning of the degradation of an ecosystem.
References
- School of Life Science, University of Sussex, UK, 2004. (http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/teaching/biology/cws/etx/Ecotoxicology_Lecture1.pdf)