In complex organisms certain cells are highly specialized to
detect changes in the environment.
Not exact matches
The more you understand your dog, the easier the
changes in his
environment will be to
detect.
But
in a larger perspective, these
changes are very small and would be difficult to
detect and explain, except
in a controlled co-located
environment.
Some other urbanisation signals may also manifest themselves as step
changes related to specific
changes in a site
environment (e.g. the 1996 construction of a new building across the street from the Melbourne site) and are
detected and adjusted for as part of the normal ACORN - SAT homogenisation process.
Researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and the University of East Anglia have determined that the Internet can be used for a whole lot of untapped information mining - including
detecting possible environmental disasters.
In an article for the journal Frontiers
in Ecology and the
Environment, the researchers state that there could be enough information being posted on the Internet to mine the data and fill gaps
in existing research, which would lead to
detecting changes in ecosystems.
However, small
changes in the neighbourhood
environment across short time periods (< 5 years) are a challenge
in longitudinal research as they provide low statistical power to
detect associations.