Reviews for Bioindicators & biomonitors

The average rating for Bioindicators & biomonitors based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-05-27 00:00:00 Chuck Ivy A ribbiting account of human nature, egos, pet hypotheses, and how the scientific process really works. Great science thriller. Yes, that is a genre. In the same vein as The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. I am still trying to find out where one of the sites in this book is. It should be in my neighborhood, but the author obviously changed just enough facts to protect the family that lives on this lake.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-11-26 00:00:00 Sarah Cohen When I first picked up this book, I couldn't put it down. Then I got about 3/4 of the way through it, got bored, and set it down for a few months. As I'm out of books to read, I picked this one up again figuring I'd read a few more pages of it but discovered that I couldn't put it down again. This story follows the mysteries of the Minnesota frog deformities. A Plague of Frogs analyzes all of the events leading up to the original discovery of the frogs and all of the research that went into trying to figure out what was wrong. The book touches on the final answers, but as nothing was truly 100% figured out, there isn't too much detail. This book definitely made me stop and think about the water supply, water quality, and the environmental indicators frogs are. I will definitely have more respect for frogs when I see them in the wild now and will definitely stop and think if I see any deformed ones. I would highly recommend this book for those who are interested in reading about natural environmental indicators and for those who were alive when the deformed frog scare was happening and wish to know more.