Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wells, Jeffrey V

Titel

Birds as Indicators

Ist Teil von

• Birder's Conservation Handbook, 2010, p.5-8

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Many people think of the concept of using birds as environmental indicators as a new idea. But the most ancient human cultures were the first to use birds and other wildlife to track changes in their world. Our ancestors had to be exceptionally observant of nature to survive. The signals that they read from birds gave them clues about changes in food availability and seasonality. A drop in numbers of grouse in one area might have indicated to them that hunting pressure had become too great or that the habitat had grown too thick. An intentionally set fire might be