Associations of urban environmental pollution with health-related physiological traits in a free-living bird species

Bauerová, Petra; Vinklerová, Jitka; Hraníček, Jakub; Čorba, Vojtěch; Vojtek, Libor; Svobodová, Jana; Vinkler, Michal

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.276

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“…It is also unclear how diet relates to the fitness of synanthropic species (Moss, Alldredge, & Pauli, 2016;Savory, Hunter, Wooller, & O'Brien, 2014). Despite their abundance, urban exploiters commonly show signs of physiological stress as well as having high pollutant concentrations in their tissues (Bauerová et al, 2017;Strasser & Heath, 2013).…”

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Trophic structure in a rapidly urbanizing planet

El‐Sabaawi

2018

Functional Ecology

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The human population is rapidly urbanizing, and the negative impacts of urban cover on biodiversity and ecosystem function are expected to increase. Trophic dynamics have been hypothesized to change with urbanization, with consequences for biodiversity and function. Here, I review recent progress in this area by focusing on how urbanization affects dietary sources, trophic interactions and the functional ecology of synanthropic species. Urbanization affects primary autochthonous production in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems by replacing and fragmenting natural areas with impervious cover, increasing nutrient supply, changing hydrological regimes, and altering the composition and seasonality of primary producers. The responses of primary production differ between climatic regions or across hydrological regimes. Urbanization can also change the availability of subsidies (autochthonous vs. allochthonous resources) because many urban species feed on human food (anthropogenic subsidies) and because of changes in the plant composition and physical characteristics of riparian zones. Urbanization can change the composition of consumers by decreasing the abundance of apex predators, releasing mesopredators, as well as the introduction of non‐native omnivores. Few direct experiments have been conducted on trophic interactions in urban ecosystems. They broadly suggest that urbanization weakens herbivory and predation, but that it might increase competition between synanthropic and urbanophobic species. However, the outcomes of these interactions are highly context‐specific. The reliance of synanthropic species on anthropogenic subsidies appears to be an important aspect of urban trophic ecology. However, more research is needed to understand how dietary flexibility, especially in relation to anthropogenic subsidies, contributes to the physiology and population dynamics of synanthropes. Urbanization can dramatically change trophic dynamics in the urban ecosystem with implications for biodiversity patterns, management and conservation. However, it is clear that a broader and more mechanistic understanding of the urban food webs is needed. This can be accomplished through inclusion of functional trophic metrics in monitoring efforts, the use of stable isotope food web metrics, the use of multi‐trophic‐level experiments and a more detailed study of the functional ecology of synanthropes. A http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.13114/suppinfo is available for this article.

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Trophic structure in a rapidly urbanizing planet

El‐Sabaawi

2018

Functional Ecology

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“…The monitoring of water quality undoubtedly provides empirical evidence to support decisions regarding health protection versus environmental issues. 1,2 The frequent detection of pharmaceuticals, drugs, endocrine disrupting phenols, personal care products, and other contaminants, has become a global problem due to their potential to cause undesirable ecological and human health effects. 3 Conventional environmental monitoring strategies are, paradoxically, also of environmental concern because they require the use of large amounts of halogenated organic solvents in the environmental sample preparation, thus generating enormous amounts of toxic waste.…”

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A green metal–organic framework to monitor water contaminants

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“…), biogeochemical cycles (Ligeza and Smal ), water and atmosphere contamination (Bauerová et al. ), the availability of food source (Isaksson and Andersson , Chamberlain et al. ), light (Titulaer et al.…”

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Designing network‐connected systems for ecological research and education

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While networked sensors are becoming a ubiquitous part of many human lives, their applications to the study of wild animals have been largely limited to off-the-shelf and stand-alone technologies such as web cameras. However, purpose-designed systems, applying features found in Internet-of-Things devices, enable more efficient gathering, managing, and disseminating of a diverse array of data needed to study the life histories of wild animals. We illustrate these claims based on our development of a system of networked nest boxes that we created to study nesting birds in urban environments. This system uses general-purpose processors within nest boxes to perform edge computing to control data acquisition, processing, and management from multiple sensors. A central data-management system permits easy access to all data, once downloaded, which has facilitated our uses to date of this system for formal university-and school-level education, and informal science education.

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Associations of urban environmental pollution with health-related physiological traits in a free-living bird species

Cited by 48 publications

References 50 publications

Trophic structure in a rapidly urbanizing planet

Trophic structure in a rapidly urbanizing planet

A green metal–organic framework to monitor water contaminants

Designing network‐connected systems for ecological research and education

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