sentinel
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"When you only have a handful of species that can persist in environments like that, and they're really sensitive to change, those serve as really good sentinel taxa," Adams said.
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
Ahead of our return to the city, we drive back up the ridge, back through Burguete, the inn still shuttered, and up to Roncesvalles, where the old monastery looms like a sentinel over the pass.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025
The church stood empty like a silent sentinel over a small cemetery next to it.
From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024
“This is a sentinel species,” Pozo said, referring to the canary-in-a-coal mine effect where one species can say a lot about an ecosystem.
From Seattle Times • May 21, 2024
All of the sentinel animals remained healthy, and the blood and tissue samples from the other animals, insects, birds, Masai people, and their cattle showed no signs of Marburg virus.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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