Biology GCSE
environmental monitoring
What environmental monitoring means in Biology GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of environmental monitoring
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Reference: OCR
Assessing compliance with ecological safety benchmarks, for example where air quality regulations specify that the 95th percentile of daily sulfur dioxide concentrations must not breach statutory limits.
Topics that use environmental monitoring
- Monitoring and maintaining the environment (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- atmospheric gases and water availability
- axis scaling
- biodiversity preservation
- bioindicator species
- ecotourism
- Environmental change
- graph plotting
- habitat destruction
Using environmental monitoring in the exam
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