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    Sentinel species are organisms, often animals, used to detect risks to humans by providing advance warning of a danger. The terms primarily apply in the...
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    Astacoidea and Parastacoidea. They breathe through feather-like gills. Some species are found in brooks and streams, where fresh water is running, while others...
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    structure. Cultural keystone species Ecosystem service Foundation species Indigenous Introduced species Sentinel species Paine, R. T. (1969). "A Note...
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    North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island. The island is...
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    Domestic canary (category Articles with 'species' microformats)
    together for this competition.[citation needed] Mice were used as sentinel species for use in detecting carbon monoxide in British coal mining from around...
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  • South Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. It is 1.6 km (1 mi) long northeast to southwest and up to 1 km (5⁄8 mi) wide...
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  • in a larger population. In zoonotic diseases, sentinel surveillance may be in a host species. A sentinel surveillance system is used to obtain data about...
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    Environmental indicator Indicator value MERMOZ (remote detection of lifeforms) Sentinel species Barbour, M.T.; Gerritsen, J.; Stribling, J.B. (1999). Rapid Bioassessment...
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    Martha Mitchell effect ("The Cassandra of Watergate") Normalcy bias Sentinel species ("Canary in a coalmine") The Boy Who Cried Wolf "Cassandra". Oxford...
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    Yellow fever (category Articles with 'species' microformats)
    rapidly across several neotropical monkey species, including brown howler monkeys, which serve as a sentinel species for yellow fever. No cases had been transmitted...
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    An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment. Invasive species adversely affect habitats and bioregions, causing ecological...
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  • trial Early adopter Harbinger Peer-mediated instruction Swing state Sentinel species Tipping-point state Will it play in Peoria? Look up bellwether in Wiktionary...
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  • (disambiguation) Canary trap, a method for exposing an information leak Sentinel species, such as the "canary in a coal mine" Calamity Jane Cannary (1852–1903)...
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    American crow (category IUCN Red List least concern species)
    up to 72% in a single season. Because of this, American crows are a sentinel species indicating the presence of West Nile virus in an area. Crows cannot...
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    mixed-species foraging flocks. The third class of birds found in mixed-species flocks have been termed "sentinel" species. Unlike nuclear species, sentinels...
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    Melon-headed whale (category IUCN Red List least concern species)
    Management. 19 (Supplement): 1–114. Bossart, G. (2011). "Marine mammals as sentinel species for oceans and human health". Veterinary Pathology. 48 (3): 676–690...
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    powerful master data set. A premise of the project is that dogs may be a sentinel species for humans since they live in the same environment as humans. The project...
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  • based on the timing of oral incubation of eggs and juveniles in the sentinel species Genidens genidens (Siluriformes: Ariidae) in a tropical estuary". Neotropical...
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    integrity". The claims have received support by a study using dogs as a "sentinel species to approximate human exposure to a selection of chemical mixtures present...
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  • Omega Sentinel (Karima Shapandar) is a superhero later supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is associated...
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    41–44. PMID 3824875. Potera, C. (2007). "Chemical Exposures: Cats as Sentinel Species". Environmental Health Perspectives. 115 (12): A580. doi:10.1289/ehp...
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    (14 June 2017). "Submersed Aquatic Vegetation in Chesapeake Bay: Sentinel Species in a Changing World". BioScience. 67 (8). Oxford University Press (OUP):...
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    pesticides on the reproductive system of aquatic wildlife species, with crocodilians as sentinel species". Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 518: 110918...
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    American spadefoot toad (category Articles with 'species' microformats)
    "Toad puts wrench in South Middleton Township subdivision plan". The Sentinel. "Species Action Plan, June 2011, Natural Diversity Section of Pennsylvania...
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    tree Harmful algal bloom Mass mortality event Paramoebiasis Roadkill Sentinel species U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Washington, DC (2000). "The Quality...
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    Fathead minnow (category IUCN Red List least concern species)
    Endocrine-disrupting effects of cattle feedlot effluent on an aquatic sentinel species, the fathead minnow. Environmental Health Perspectives, 112(3), 353–358...
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    "low"). Chub black chin, stonecat and lamprey East are also part of sentinel species in the watershed of the Richelieu River, like copper redhorse, whose...
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  • pollution, flame retardants, microplastics and plastic pollution, sentinel species and climate change. The Shaw Institute was established as the Marine...
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  • Indicator species, which reveals the qualitative status of the environment Keystone species, which has a large effect on its environment Sentinel species, used...
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    The sentinel rock thrush (Monticola explorator) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Lesotho, South Africa, and Eswatini. Its...
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