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indicator species

Plant or animal whose presence or absence in an area indicates certain environmental conditions, such as soil type, high levels of pollution, or, in rivers, low levels of dissolved oxygen. Many plants show a preference for either alkaline or acid soil conditions, while certain trees require aluminium, and are found only in soils where it is present. Some lichens are sensitive to sulphur dioxide in the air, and absence of these species indicates atmospheric pollution.
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Avoiding overlap with that text, it reviews major developments in the field over the last decade, focusing on the adrenal as a target organ in the main mammalian species used in pharmaceutical and chemical regulatory toxicology and on environmental sentinel species, as well as on advances in identifying molecular mechanisms of action.
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telemetry, population estimation), the sentinel species concept may not be applicable in some instances.
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