Sentences with word «bioindicator»

They can also serve as bioindicators of pollution and pesticides.

Lichens play an important role in ecological processes such as soil formation and nutrient cycling and serve as bioindicators of environmental toxicity.

This is why they are used as bioindicators for the biological monitoring of water quality.

The molecular index developed by the biologists from UNIGE could easily be adapted to other groups of unicellular bioindicators: a major asset for monitoring various types of aquatic ecosystems.

This is the case of diatoms, algae consisting of a single cell surrounded by a silica skeleton, recommended by the European Union and Switzerland as one of the ideal bioindicators for rivers and lakes.

To sample 100 gallons of water, someone scoops out that much water and tests it for bioindicator microbes.

Tadpoles are good bioindicators of responses to pollutants.

The latter reflect the ecological status of a river based on the quantity and diversity of organisms selected as bioindicators, due to their ecological preferences and tolerance to pollution.

«These deformities are caused by environmental pollution, so you can use them as a bioindicator,» he says.

With the need to evaluate atmospheric conditions, bioindicators — organisms whose response to environmental changes indicates the health of an ecosystem — have attracted considerable attention.

They then factored in the type of land at the surveyed points through linear and generalized linear models to examine the usefulness and limitations of bryophytes as a bioindicator.

Parallel to the developments in Germany, the bald eagle was also recognized as a bioindicator in North America.