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The Role of Biological Monitoring

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Pollution of the North Sea

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If we initiate pollution monitoring programmes, we must not only consider the monitored ecosystem to be worth conserving, but also that by maintaining deliberate awareness of its health we could anticipate and prevent its decline. We cannot expect to prevent organisms from coming into contact with toxic agents, but can try to ensure that the level of toxic stress is within their capacity to cope.

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  1. Institute for Soil Fertility, Delft Hydraulics Laboratory, P.O. Box 30003, 9750 RA, Haren (Gr), The Netherlands

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  2. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth, PL 13 DH, UK

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    Egbert Klaas Duursma

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Stebbing, A.R.D., Harris, J.R.W. (1993). The Role of Biological Monitoring. In: Salomons, W., Bayne, B.L., Duursma, E.K., Förstner, U. (eds) Pollution of the North Sea. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73709-1_39

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