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HTTP:: Network Sensors Monitor Endangered Species
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Observing animals in their natural habitats, without a direct, human interference, is the best possible way of discovering their habits and population variations, and experts say that the method may also provide a novel, high-tech way of keeping tabs on climate change. If a certain species varies outside its normal limits, it may be an indicator that an external factor from outside the regular ecosystem â€" such as global warming â€" is acting on the animals, the BBC News reports. For example, on Skomer Island, computers and sensor arrays are already being used to monitor a vulnerable habitat, inhabited by guillemots, several species of seabirds that can be found in the order Charadriiformes, and in the auk family. The grid is used to monitor interesting behavior in the species, such as how much time they spend in the colony or mating, or their eating habits and timetables. The investigators operating the instruments also hope to be able to collect key features in the spe!
cies, as well as developing trends, and their spread. Through their very nature, guillemots are early indicators of environmental changes and can be used to predict what effects climate change could have on other endangered ecosystems as well. University of Lincoln computer science lecturer Dr. Patrick Dickinson, one of the scient...
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