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The indicator species concept has its roots in the folklore of humanity and in the attempts of man to deal with the variables in his environment. The insecurities of early man’s existence led inevitably to attempts at organizing his qualitative observations into a cause and effect system of prediction.
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Soule, D.F. (1988). Marine Organisms as Indicators: Reality or Wishful Thinking?. In: Soule, D.F., Kleppel, G.S. (eds) Marine Organisms as Indicators. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3752-5_1
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