Responses of wild small mammals to arsenic pollution at a partially remediated mining site in Southern France

Drouhot, Séverine; Raoul, Francis; Crini, Nadia; Tougard, Christelle; Prudent, Anne-Sophie; Druart, Céline; Rieffel, Dominique; Lambert, Jean-Claude; Tête, Nicolas; Giraudoux, Patrick; Scheifler, Renaud

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.053

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“…Small mammals primarily gain metals through ingestion (Beyer et al 1994), but they also may accumulate them through inhalation, grooming, skin absorption, or placental transfer during pregnancy (Hunter and Johnson 1982;van den Brink et al 2010). Studies of metal accumulation in small mammals have included raccoons (Procyonidae: Khan et al 1995;Lord et al 2002), wood mice, field mice, and yellow-necked mice (Muridae: Roberts and Johnson 1978;Mertens et al 2001;Damek-Poprawa and Sawicka-Kapusta 2003;Sánchez-Chardi et al 2007a;Rogival et al 2007;van den Brink et al 2010;Tête et al 2014), voles (Cricetidae: Roberts and Johnson 1978;Ma et al 1991;Appleton et al 2000;Mertens et al 2001), moles (Talpidae: Komarnicki 2000), and shrews (Soricidae: Ma et al 1991;Mertens et al 2001;Hamers et al 2006;Sánchez-Chardi and Nadal 2007;Sánchez-Chardi et al 2007b;Moriarty et al 2012;Drouhot et al 2014). Most studies examine metal accumulation in various mammalian tissues, such as the stomach, liver, kidneys, lungs, femurs, hair, and teeth (Ma et al 1991;Appleton et al 2000;Damek-Poprawa and Sawicka-Kapusta 2003;Beernaert et al 2007;Sánchez-Chardi et al 2007b;Drouhot et al 2014), while others examine whole-body metal concentrations (Veltman et al 2007).…”

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Transfer of heavy metals through terrestrial food webs: a review

Gall

Boyd

Rajakaruna

2015

Environ Monit Assess

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Heavy metals are released into the environment by both anthropogenic and natural sources. Highly reactive and often toxic at low concentrations, they may enter soils and groundwater, bioaccumulate in food webs, and adversely affect biota. Heavy metals also may remain in the environment for years, posing long-term risks to life well after point sources of heavy metal pollution have been removed. In this review, we compile studies of the community-level effects of heavy metal pollution, including heavy metal transfer from soils to plants, microbes, invertebrates, and to both small and large mammals (including humans). Many factors contribute to heavy metal accumulation in animals including behavior, physiology, and diet. Biotic effects of heavy metals are often quite different for essential and non-essential heavy metals, and vary depending on the specific metal involved. They also differ for adapted organisms, including metallophyte plants and heavy metal-tolerant insects, which occur in naturally high-metal habitats (such as serpentine soils) and have adaptations that allow them to tolerate exposure to relatively high concentrations of some heavy metals. Some metallophyte plants are hyperaccumulators of certain heavy metals and new technologies using them to clean metal-contaminated soil (phytoextraction) may offer economically attractive solutions to some metal pollution challenges. These new technologies provide incentive to catalog and protect the unique biodiversity of habitats that have naturally high levels of heavy metals.

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Section: Small Mammalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transfer of heavy metals through terrestrial food webs: a review

Gall

Boyd

Rajakaruna

2015

Environ Monit Assess

703

258

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“…Chemical interactions between soil and As are important to understand its fate in the environment and choose the suitable management strategy (Bolan et al 2014 ). These last years, part of the research concerned remediation (Gonzalez-Fernandez et al 2011 ;Drouhot et al 2014 ;Jana et al 2012 ;Flakova et al 2012 ). In this context, the better understanding of the fractionation and the potential of mobilization of arsenic is required and helpful to improve the efficiency of these technics.…”

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Geochemical characterization and modeling of arsenic behavior in a highly contaminated mining soil

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The environmental assessment and management of historical mining sites contaminated with various inorganic species require a better knowledge of pollutant-bearing phases. Among elements present in mining soils, arsenic is a toxic metalloid with potential high content and high mobility capacity into the environment. The objective of this paper was to investigate the mobility and fractionation of arsenic (As) in a highly As contaminated soil (ca. 3 wt%). The soil was collected from an old gold mining site in France, where mining activities and smelting processes of gold ores took place.

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“…Pollution imposes substantial environmental stress on organisms including birds (Morelli et al., ; Radhouani et al., ), insects (Bonisoli‐Alquati et al., ; Butler & Trumble, ) and mammals (Drouhot et al., ; Fritsch et al., ). Our data confirm that effects of pollution on animal population dynamics can be stronger than those of climate change (Zvereva et al., ), and highlight the importance of studying pollution as an integral component of global change research (Batty & Hallberg, ; Sun & Zhou, ).…”

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The relative strengths of rapid and delayed density dependence acting on a terrestrial herbivore change along a pollution gradient

Hunter

Kozlov

2018

Journal of Animal Ecology

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Animal populations vary in response to a combination of density‐dependent and density‐independent forces, which interact to drive their population dynamics. Understanding how abiotic forces mediate the form and strength of density‐dependent processes remains a central goal of ecology, and is of increasing urgency in a rapidly changing world. Here, we report for the first time that industrial pollution determines the relative strength of rapid and delayed density dependence operating on an animal population. We explored the impacts of pollution and climate on the population dynamics of an eruptive leafmining moth, Phyllonorycter strigulatella, around a coal‐fired power plant near Apatity, north‐western Russia. Populations were monitored at 14 sites over 26 years. The relative strengths of rapid and delayed density dependence varied with distance from the power plant. Specifically, the strength of rapid density dependence increased while the strength of delayed density dependence decreased with increasing distance from the pollution source. Paralleling the increasing strength of rapid density dependence, we observed declines in the densities of P. strigulatella, increases in predation pressure from birds and ants, and declines in an unknown source of mortality (perhaps plant antibiosis) with increasing distance from the power plant. In contrast to the associations with pollution, associations between climate change and leafminer population densities were negligible. Our results may help to explain the outbreaks of insect herbivores that are frequently observed in polluted environments. We show that they can result from the weakening of rapid (stabilizing) density dependence relative to the effects of destabilizing delayed density dependence. Moreover, our results may explain some of the variation reported in published studies of animal populations in polluted habitats. Variable results may emerge in part because of the location of the study sites on different parts of pollution gradients. Finally, in a rapidly changing world, effects of anthropogenic pollution may be as, or more, important than are effects of climate change on the future dynamics of animal populations.

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Responses of wild small mammals to arsenic pollution at a partially remediated mining site in Southern France

Cited by 34 publications

References 38 publications

Transfer of heavy metals through terrestrial food webs: a review

Transfer of heavy metals through terrestrial food webs: a review

Geochemical characterization and modeling of arsenic behavior in a highly contaminated mining soil

The relative strengths of rapid and delayed density dependence acting on a terrestrial herbivore change along a pollution gradient

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