biomonitoring… monitoring is observing smf., right ?
and bio monitoring would be monitoring of smf. of biologycal importance, right?

an animal spy around u…

Allow me to venture a guess. I would say that biomonitoring would be the observation and recording of data such as population decline or rise for example, taken from a specific organism or group of organisms that are known bio-indicatiors of the environment around them. Some of these would be Mayfly nymphs which are extreamly sensitive to pollutants in the water in which they live or another would be lichens, which are sensitive to air pollution. 😀 A change in the population, habits and morphological or physiological attributes of the these organisms would indicate a problem within their environment and ours too! 😀

I was reading an article about this a few weeks back and i think its the measurement of trace compounds (chemicals our body absorbs from the enviroment just by being in it) in our body.

here is the website.

http://www.accnewsmedia.com/docs/1300/1209.pdf

EPA has a good site about this. http://www.epa.gov/bioiweb1/html/key.html that’s where i learned most of what i needed to know for my research proposal. a word of advice though, you might want to keep track of where you’re going. the links are not that organized.