Environment Development and Sustainability, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Dec. 22, 2023
Language: Английский
Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15(1)
Published: March 26, 2024
Abstract Substantial global attention is focused on how to reduce the risk of future pandemics. Reducing this requires investment in prevention, preparedness, and response. Although preparedness response have received significant focus, especially prevention zoonotic spillover, remains largely absent from conversations. This oversight due part lack a clear definition guidance achieve it. To address gap, we elucidate mechanisms linking environmental change spillover using viruses bats as case study. We identify ecological interventions that can disrupt these propose policy frameworks for their implementation. Recognizing pandemics originate systems, advocate integrating approaches alongside biomedical comprehensive balanced pandemic strategy.
Language: Английский
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Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 385(6713)
Published: Sept. 5, 2024
Biodiversity loss is accelerating, yet we know little about how these ecosystem disruptions affect human well-being. Ecologists have documented both the importance of bats as natural predators insects well their population declines after emergence a wildlife disease, resulting in potential decline biological pest control. In this work, I study species interactions can extend beyond an and agriculture health. find that farmers compensated for bat by increasing insecticide use 31.1%. The compensatory increase adversely affected health-human infant mortality increased 7.9% counties experienced die-offs. These findings provide empirical validation to previous theoretical predictions meaningful social costs.
Language: Английский
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Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 375, P. 109215 - 109215
Published: July 30, 2024
Conventional agriculture occupies a substantial portion of Earth's terrestrial surface and adversely affects biodiversity through pesticide spread, mechanisation, loss spatial temporal heterogeneity farmed landscapes. Consequently, conventional has become primary target many restoration projects operating at various scales, from habitat to landscape. While these efforts aim increase farmland promote the delivery associated ecosystem services, unintended consequences may arise when important threats are not mitigated. For instance, animals be led make maladaptive choices, lured attractive sites with poor quality (ecological traps), resulting in adverse effects on individual fitness demography. We focus our review European as case study because its extensive presence continent particularly articulated legal framework regulating within Union. Europe's policy is dual-faced: one promotes development regardless management practices, while other advocates for protection measures that sometimes lack strong supporting evidence or overlook critical aspects. Insectivorous bats contribute significantly service insectivory agricultural landscapes, consuming large numbers pest arthropods. However, restoring habitats farmland, potential outcomes must considered, if actions accompanied by mitigation key threats. These include persistent widespread use pesticides, road networks, siting wind turbines opportunistic predators, especially domestic cats. argue installing bat boxes enhancing landscape features, such increasing connectivity diversity, potentially trap yet unsuitable environments environmental highly valued populations, it crucial avoid neglecting factors could have opposite effect, turning 'improved' into sink. Research urgently needed understand inform policymakers.
Language: Английский
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Ecosphere, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16(1)
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Abstract Bats are acknowledged as suppliers of essential ecosystem services such insect pest control in agroecosystems. Little is known, however, on how bat assemblages respond to the gradients imposed by anthropogenic landscapes and farming practices these environmental effects translate into changes foraging. In this study, we use cider apple crop northern Spain a model address filtering landscape composition orchard management on, simultaneously, quantitative qualitative characteristics local their foraging activity. For that, carried out acoustic monitoring bats sampled moth abundance across wider range orchards covering different contexts conditions. We found that markedly varied orchards, according mostly but with contrasting assemblage characteristics. Namely, higher levels rural urbanization lower cover seminatural woody habitats around promoted total activity number species/species complexes. However, also altered composition, increasing dominance most abundant species, decreased functional diversity. Additionally, greater tree canopy within Landscape led predictable variations activity, suggesting potential persistence even limited habitat cover. The present study highlights differential responses orchard‐scale conditions, hindering establishment straightforward guidelines. Further analysis relationship between necessary understand can be through agroecosystem.
Language: Английский
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Nature Microbiology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Jan. 20, 2025
Language: Английский
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Global Ecology and Conservation, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 58, P. e03467 - e03467
Published: Jan. 29, 2025
Language: Английский
Citations
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Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 383, P. 109503 - 109503
Published: Jan. 30, 2025
Language: Английский
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Journal for Nature Conservation, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 78, P. 126558 - 126558
Published: Jan. 6, 2024
Organic farming is an essential component of sustainable agriculture that can help maintain biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, providing benefits for both human well-being and environmental conservation. Recent studies have highlighted the vital role insectivorous bats farmland ecosystems by controlling pest insect populations. Our research focuses on direct economic value bat insectivory woody crops, specifically apple orchards affected codling moth Cydia pomonella. We conducted exclusion experiment followed evaluation to estimate impact crop damage savings. results demonstrate presence significantly reduce caused C. pomonella, resulting a 32.1% reduction trees 50% total weight damaged apples per tree. This translates into estimated savings 551 €/ha/y reducing need insecticide applications, which negative impacts environment health. Moreover, lead higher yields protect quality product, profits farmers. findings highlight critical maintaining ecosystem services provide valuable information management ecosystems.
Language: Английский
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 291(2018)
Published: March 6, 2024
Pesticides have well-documented negative consequences to control crop pests, and natural predators are alternatives can provide an ecosystem service as biological agents. However, there remains considerable uncertainty regarding whether such be a widely applicable solution, especially given ongoing climatic variation climate change. Here, we performed meta-analysis focused on field studies with explore broadly how might pests in turn increase yield. We also contrasted across pest suppression by single multiple influence control. Predators reduced populations 73% average, increased yield 25% average. Surprisingly, the impact of did not depend were many or predator species. Precipitation seasonality was key control: increased, increased. Taken together, positive contribution controlling increasing yield, consistency responses face precipitation variability, suggest that biocontrol has potential important part management food supplies planet patterns become increasingly variable.
Language: Английский
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Ecosystem Services, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 66, P. 101603 - 101603
Published: Feb. 19, 2024
Rice represents the main staple food for more than half of world's population, playing an essential role in security and economic growth. One major pests affecting this crop is striped rice stem borer moth (Chilo suppressalis), a widespread species found Australasia, Asia southern Europe. Bats are paramount insect consumers their as natural pest controllers agriculture has been increasingly acknowledged, including paddies. In study we quantify, first time Europe, value ecosystem services provided by insectivorous bats suppressors through exclusion experiments plantations Spain. Our design included exclosures that prevented from hunting over some experimental areas, combined with molecular analyses bat guano. By assessing damage levels caused C. supressalis inside outside exclosures, showed impact almost doubled absence (94.5 % increase). We estimated were preventing losses 70 kg per hectare on average, which terms would imply savings 56€/ha. If extrapolate our results to national level, these values could reach up 7.6 tonnes rice, or 6 million euros saved year findings highlight importance implementing management measures favour populations agrosystems part Integrated Pest Management strategies fight harmful insects, thereby increasing yields land productivity sustainable environmentally friendly way.
Language: Английский
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