NDLI: Pesticide alters habitat selection and aquatic community composition

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Vonesh, James R. Kraus, Johanna M.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Anthropogenic chemical contamination is an important issue for conservation of aquatic ecosystems. While recent research highlights that community context can mediate the consequences of contaminant exposure, little is known about how contaminants themselves might determine this context by altering habitat selection and thus initial community composition. Here we show that the insecticide carbaryl and its commercial counterpart Sevin can affect aquatic community composition by differentially altering oviposition and colonization of experimental pools by amphibians and insects. On average, contaminated pools received 20-fold more adult beetle and heteropteran colonists and 12-fold more Culex mosquito and chironomid midge egg masses. On the other hand, ovipositing Anopheles mosquitoes and cricket frogs showed no preference and we have shown previously that gray treefrogs strongly avoid contaminated pools. Overall, initial richness doubled in contaminated pools compared with controls. By affecting colonizing taxa differently and increasing richness, the contaminant may alter the ecological context under which subsequent effects of exposure will unfold. Given that community context is important for evaluating toxicity effects, understanding the net effects of contaminants in natural systems requires an understanding of their effects on community assembly via shifts in habitat selection.
Starting Page	379
Ending Page	385
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00298549
Journal	Oecologia
Volume Number	160
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	14321939
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2009-02-28
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Carbaryl Community assembly Insecticide Oviposition Colonization Plant Sciences Ecology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Pesticide alters oviposition site selection in gray treefrogs

Pesticide alters oviposition site selection in gray treefrogs

Colonization under threat of predation: avoidance of fish by an aquatic beetle, Tropisternus lateralis (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

Effects of forest canopy on habitat selection in treefrogs and aquatic insects: implications for communities and metacommunities

Tree leaf litter composition drives temporal variation in aquatic beetle colonization and assemblage structure in lentic systems

Habitat availability mediates chironomid density-dependent oviposition

Pesticide alters oviposition site selection in gray treefrogs

Spatial variability in oviposition damage by periodical cicadas in a fragmented landscape

Host specialization in habitat specialists and generalists

Pesticide alters habitat selection and aquatic community composition

Similar Documents

Pesticide alters oviposition site selection in gray treefrogs

Pesticide alters oviposition site selection in gray treefrogs

Colonization under threat of predation: avoidance of fish by an aquatic beetle, Tropisternus lateralis (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

Effects of forest canopy on habitat selection in treefrogs and aquatic insects: implications for communities and metacommunities

Tree leaf litter composition drives temporal variation in aquatic beetle colonization and assemblage structure in lentic systems

Habitat availability mediates chironomid density-dependent oviposition

Pesticide alters oviposition site selection in gray treefrogs

Spatial variability in oviposition damage by periodical cicadas in a fragmented landscape

Host specialization in habitat specialists and generalists

Pesticide alters habitat selection and aquatic community composition