Responses of terrestrial arthropods to air pollution: a meta-analysis

Zvereva, Elena L.; Kozlov, Mikhail V.

doi:10.1007/s11356-009-0138-0

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“…dust mites, leaf-mining moths or gall-forming taxa; Raupp et al 2010). Furthermore, the size of individual arthropods within a taxa is also known to be reduced in urbanized and polluted environments (Niemelä & Kotze 2009, Zvereva & Kozlov 2010 which may further decrease their availability and value as nestling food. According to this, a study on chick-feeding behaviour of the same species provides direct evidence for the hypothesis that suburban nestlings receive diet of lower quality and/or quantity as their parents delivered significantly fewer large prey items e.g.…”

Section: Seress G and Liker Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds

Seress

Liker²

2015

Acta Zool Acad Sci H

186

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By transforming landscapes, human activity creates new types of habitats with altered environmental characteristics that never existed before. As the process of habitat urbanization bears impact on more and more natural habitats, it is essential for us to understand the changes we bring forth in the ecological forces shaping urban animal communities. Birds are perhaps the most frequently studied model organisms by urban ecologists. It is a well known general pattern that urban avian communities have typically reduced species richness, while the density of a few successful species is often higher in cities than in adjacent more natural habitats. But it is less understood which mechanisms generate and uphold these community-level changes. In this review we discuss the most important components of the urban environment influencing birds' physiology, behaviour or morphology, and compile several recent studies to illustrate their effects. To understand urban food webs we also review the results of bottom-up and top-down approach which suggest that altered food availability and predation may play key roles in forming recent urban bird communities. We encourage future research to focus more on experimental, manipulative studies, that would help us not just to realize general patterns but shed more light on the mechanisms, the underlying processes prompting changes in urban bird communities.

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Section: Seress G and Liker Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds

Seress

Liker²

2015

Acta Zool Acad Sci H

186

135

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“…A recent meta-analysis (Zvereva and Kozlov 2010) of 134 studies showed the overall effect of air pollutant on herbivorous arthropods. Different pollutant categories do not affect phytophagous insect performance, except in rare cases where they may increase it.…”

Section: Atmospheric Changes Affect Plant-herbivore Interactionsmentioning

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Climate Change and Tritrophic Interactions: Will Modifications to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increase the Vulnerability of Herbivorous Insects to Natural Enemies?

Boullis

Francis

Verheggen

2015

Environmental Entomology

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Insects are highly dependent on odor cues released into the environment to locate conspecifics or food sources. This mechanism is particularly important for insect predators that rely on kairomones released by their prey to detect them. In the context of climate change and, more specifically, modifications in the gas composition of the atmosphere, chemical communication-mediating interactions between phytophagous insect pests, their host plants, and their natural enemies is likely to be impacted. Several reports have indicated that modifications to plants caused by elevated carbon dioxide and ozone concentrations might indirectly affect insect herbivores, with community-level modifications to this group potentially having an indirect influence on higher trophic levels. The vulnerability of agricultural insect pests toward their natural enemies under elevated greenhouse gases concentrations has been frequently reported, but conflicting results have been obtained. This literature review shows that the higher levels of carbon dioxide, as predicted for the coming century, do not enhance the abundance or efficiency of natural enemies to locate hosts or prey in most published studies. Increased ozone levels lead to modifications in herbivore-induced volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by damaged plants, which may impact the attractiveness of these herbivores to the third trophic level. Furthermore, other oxidative gases (such as SO 2 and NO 2 ) tend to reduce the abundance of natural enemies. The impact of changes in atmospheric gas emissions on plant-insect and insect-insect chemical communication has been under-documented, despite the significance of these mechanisms in tritrophic interactions. We conclude by suggesting some further prospects on this topic of research yet to be investigated.RÉ SUMÉ Chez les insectes, les comportements de recherche de nourriture ou de partenaires reposent sur leur capacité à percevoir des signaux chimiques présents dans l'environnement : c'est le cas chez les insectes parasitoïdes et prédateurs qui utilisent les kairomones émises par leurs hô tes/proies pour les localiser. Dans un contexte de changements climatiques, et plus précisément de modifications des concentrations atmosphériques en gaz à effet de serre, la communication chimique entre insectes phytophages, plantes hô tes et ennemis naturels pourrait être impactée. En effet, plusieurs études ont démontré que des modifications chez les plantes dues à l'augmentation des concentrations en dioxyde de carbone et ozone pouvaient impacter indirectement les insectes phytophages, ainsi que les niveaux trophiques supérieurs. Plusieurs études se sont intéressées à l'effet des changements gazeux sur la vulnérabilité des insectes phytophages vis-à-vis de leurs ennemis naturels. Leurs résultats sont dans l'ensemble variables. Cette synthèse bibliographique indique que l'augmentation de la concentration en CO 2 n'augmente généralement pas l'efficacité ou l'abondance des ennemis naturels. L'augmentation d'O 3 va induire des mo...

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“…Regarding the health of wild animals, much less is known. Existing data suggest that reproductive performance and survival is negatively affected, which ultimately reduce species richness and population densities (e.g., Eeva et al, 2009a, b;Laurance and Useche, 2009;Temple and Terry, 2009;Zvereva and Kozlov, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

Pollution and Its Impact on Wild Animals: A Meta-Analysis on Oxidative Stress

Isaksson

2010

EcoHealth

143

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Oxidative stress is the unifying feature underlying the toxicity of anthropogenic pollution (e.g., heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and nitrogen-oxides) and the ultimate culprit in the development of many diseases. Yet, there has been no attempt to summarize the published data on wild terrestrial animals to reveal general trends regarding the effects of pollution on oxidative stress. The main findings of this meta-analysis reveal that, as predicted, there is an overall increase in oxidative stress when exposed to pollution. This is mainly due to a weak overall increase of oxidative damages, although there is some variation across taxa. The reduced form of glutathione (GSH) and its associated enzymes are the most reliable biomarkers. This result is important when choosing biomarkers and when using less-invasive sampling of endangered species, or for longitudinal approaches. To be able to predict future population outcomes, possible treatments, but also evolutionary responses to a changing environment, a greater integration of biotic factors such as temperature, bioavailability of toxic elements, and species-specific responses are needed.

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Responses of terrestrial arthropods to air pollution: a meta-analysis

Cited by 134 publications

References 67 publications

Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds

Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds

Climate Change and Tritrophic Interactions: Will Modifications to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increase the Vulnerability of Herbivorous Insects to Natural Enemies?

Pollution and Its Impact on Wild Animals: A Meta-Analysis on Oxidative Stress

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