Insects as bioindicator: A hidden gem for environmental monitoring
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چکیده
Environmental contamination research has been quite interesting in bioindicators recently. The basic objective of bioindicator is to find species that can reliably detect environmental disturbances and demonstrate how those affect other or biodiversity as a whole. Since they frequently come into contact with the harmful substances found soil, water, air, insects are particularly valuable for evaluating human activities terrestrial ecosystem, aquatic system, atmosphere. In this review article, we’ve emphasized use resource assessing contaminants monitoring contamination. Insects have our main focus since key indicators changes air quality. majority insects, including beetles, ants, honey bees, butterflies employed study biological sensitive even slightest also used monitor different toxins.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Environmental Science
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2296-665X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1146052