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Environmental pollution poses a great threat to society. Sometimes, it becomes difficult to determine the level of pollutants present in the atmosphere in spite of numerous methods available for determining pollutants in the atmosphere. Environmental monitoring helps to determine the presence of pollutants and monitor the quality of the environment. The information collected can help implement control measures for reducing the level of pollutant concentration to an accessible permissible limit. Sometimes, environmental changes are so slow that their determination requires careful monitoring over long periods. However, different analytical and chemical methods available to determine a pollutant do not determine the real effect of the pollutants on the organism that makes up the environment. Bioindicator and biomarker have the advantage, as they measure the changes in the biological systems that respond to exposure of pollutants that lead to biological effects. This chapter describes the use of plants, organisms, and microorganisms as indicator organisms which can reveal the presence of pollutants in the atmosphere by acquiring certain changes in itself, which may be ecological, behavioral, and physiological, along with the effect of pollutants on the organisms in the environment that can be determined using a wide range of biomarkers.
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Singh, A., Singh, J. (2020). Recent Approaches Used in Environmental Monitoring Methods. In: Singh, J., Vyas, A., Wang, S., Prasad, R. (eds) Microbial Biotechnology: Basic Research and Applications. Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2817-0_16
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