2021
DOI: 10.1002/eap.2415
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Assessing pesticides exposure effects on the reproductive performance of a declining aerial insectivore

Abstract: In the context of increasing global environmental changes, it has become progressively important to understand the effects of human activity on wildlife populations. Declines in several avian populations have been observed since the 1970s, especially with respect to many farmland and grassland birds, which also include some aerial insectivores. Changes in farming practices referred to as agricultural intensification coincide with these major avian declines. Among those practices, increased pesticide use is hyp… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
2
1
1
1

Citation Types

0
12
0
1

Year Published

2022
2022
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
6

Relationship

2
4

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 21 publications
(14 citation statements)
references
References 80 publications
(214 reference statements)
0
12
0
1
Order By: Relevance
“…Moreover, herbivores may be exposed through consumption of vegetation organs, since cultivated and wild plants have been shown to be contaminated by systemic insecticides 49 . Both BRPs and CUPs have been found to accumulate in earthworms, and in insects constituting the boluses of bird nestlings 11 , 65 67 . Pesticide overspray can also be an exposure pathway for wildlife, with potential uptake via dermal and respiratory routes but also oral route due to grooming 68 , 69 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, herbivores may be exposed through consumption of vegetation organs, since cultivated and wild plants have been shown to be contaminated by systemic insecticides 49 . Both BRPs and CUPs have been found to accumulate in earthworms, and in insects constituting the boluses of bird nestlings 11 , 65 67 . Pesticide overspray can also be an exposure pathway for wildlife, with potential uptake via dermal and respiratory routes but also oral route due to grooming 68 , 69 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…clothianidin, thiacloprid, thiametoxam; Giroux, 2019;Montiel-Le on et al, 2019). Many of those pesticides were also found, even simultaneously, in the insects fed to nestlings by Tree Swallows in our system (Poisson et al, 2021) and may hence have caused lethal and sublethal toxicological effects on nestlings. For instance, many pesticides, such as the neonicotinoids, can alter the neurological, endocrine and immunological systems of non-target animals, including vertebrates, via skin contact, breathing, or food/water consumption (Gibbons et al, 2014;Grue et al, 1997;Lopez-Antia et al, 2015;Mayne et al, 2005;Mineau & Palmer, 2013).…”
Section: Residual Effects Of Agricultural Landcover On Fitness and Bo...mentioning
confidence: 66%
“…Furthermore, within heavily cultivated landscapes, the same mechanisms reducing insect abundance, may also impact insectivorous birds, either irrespective of, or in conjunction with, levels of prey. For example, due to the increase of pesticides, insectivorous birds breeding within landscapes dominated by agro‐intensive monocultures may not only be exposed to decreased prey availability, but also to elevated toxicological loads of food items (Malaj et al, 2020; Montiel‐León et al, 2019; Morrissey et al, 2015; Poisson et al, 2021). Breeding within agro‐intensive landscapes may thus have the potential to impact fitness not only through a trophic pathway, via variation in prey availability, but also through other indirect pathways linked to agricultural intensification (Stanton et al, 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…These agro‐intensive landscapes transition to ones composed primarily of pastures and forage crops (e.g., hay, alfalfa [ Medicago sativa ], and clover [ Trifolium spp.]) in the eastern parts of the study system and are interspersed within large areas of forest cover and a systematic drop in pesticide detections (Poisson et al, 2021).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%