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2024
Europe-wide spatial trends in copper and imidacloprid sensitivity of macroinvertebrate assemblages
JUPKE, Jonathan F., Thomas SINCLAIR, Lorraine MALTBY, Jukka AROVIITA, Libuše BAREŠOVÁ et. al.Basic information
Original name
Europe-wide spatial trends in copper and imidacloprid sensitivity of macroinvertebrate assemblages
Authors
JUPKE, Jonathan F. (guarantor), Thomas SINCLAIR, Lorraine MALTBY, Jukka AROVIITA, Libuše BAREŠOVÁ, Núria BONADA, Emília ELEXOVÁ MIŠÍKOVÁ, M. Teresa FERREIRA, Maria LAZARIDOU, Margita LEŠŤÁKOVÁ, Piotr PANEK, Petr PAŘIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Edwin T. H. M. PEETERS, Marek POLÁŠEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Leonard SANDIN, Dénes SCHMERA, Michal STRAKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Ralf B. SCHÄFER
Edition
Environmental Sciences Europe, Springer-Verlag, GmbH, Environmental Sciences Europe, 2024, 2190-4707
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
10618 Ecology
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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Impact factor
Impact factor: 5.900 in 2022
Organization unit
Faculty of Science
UT WoS
001254162500001
Keywords in English
Broad river types; Copper; Ecological risk assessment; Imidacloprid; Macroinvertebrates
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 18/7/2024 10:58, Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS.
Abstract
V originále
Exposure to synthetic chemicals, such as pesticides and pharmaceuticals, affects freshwater communities at broad spatial scales. This risk is commonly managed in a prospective environmental risk assessment (ERA). Relying on generic methods, a few standard test organisms, and safety factors to account for uncertainty, ERA determines concentrations that are assumed to pose low risks to ecosystems. Currently, this procedure neglects potential variation in assemblage sensitivity among ecosystem types and recommends a single low-risk concentration for each compound. Whether systematic differences in assemblage sensitivity among ecosystem types exist or their size, are currently unknown. Elucidating spatial patterns in sensitivity to chemicals could therefore enhance ERA precision and narrow a fundamental knowledge gap in ecology, the Hutchinsonian shortfall. We analyzed whether taxonomic turnover between field-sampled macroinvertebrate assemblages of different broad river types across Europe results in systematic differences in assemblage sensitivity to copper and imidacloprid. We used an extensive database of macroinvertebrate assemblage compositions throughout Europe and employed a hierarchical species sensitivity distribution model to predict the concentration that would be harmful to 5% of taxa (HC5) in each assemblage. Predicted HC5 values varied over several orders of magnitude. However, variation within the 95% highest density intervals remained within one order of magnitude. Differences between the river types were minor for imidacloprid and only slightly higher for copper. The largest difference between river-type-specific median HC5 values was a factor of 3.1. This level of variation is below the assessment factors recommended by the European Food Safety Authority and therefore would be captured in the current ERA for plant protection products. We conclude that the differences in taxonomic composition between broad river types translate into relatively small differences in macroinvertebrate assemblage sensitivity toward the evaluated chemicals at the European scale. However, systematic differences in bioavailability and multi-stressor context were not evaluated and might exacerbate the differences in the ecological effects of chemicals among broad river types in real-world ecosystems.
Links
| GA23-05268S, research and development project |
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| SS05010134, research and development project |
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