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A stated objective of this workshop is to develop a plan for implementing a pilot network for environmental specimen banking and for monitoring as related to banking. The purpose of the network would be to provide a basis for dealing with environmental problems brought about by man’s activities. Because the human environment is a global environment, the network must be giobal too. This paper identifies certain properties of the living environment that may be most indicative of our environment’s well being and upon which we may be most dependent; properties we have not previously considered as candidates for specimen selection. The purpose of this paper is to offer a theoretical basis for considering these properties and two specific examples to illustrate their usefulness.
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States, J., Burns, T., Hinds, T. (1984). The Environmental Monitoring of “Emergent Properties” as Related to Specimen Banking. In: Lewis, R.A., Stein, N., Lewis, C.W. (eds) Environmental Specimen Banking and Monitoring as Related to Banking. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6765-6_22
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