Ecological traits interact with landscape context to determine bees' pesticide risk
Knapp, Jessica L LU ; Nicholson, Charlie C LU
; Jonsson, Ove
; de Miranda, Joachim R
and Rundlöf, Maj
LU
(2023)
In Nature Ecology and Evolution
7.
p.547-556
- Abstract
Widespread contamination of ecosystems with pesticides threatens non-target organisms. However, the extent to which life-history traits affect pesticide exposure and resulting risk in different landscape contexts remains poorly understood. We address this for bees across an agricultural land-use gradient based on pesticide assays of pollen and nectar collected by Apis mellifera, Bombus terrestris and Osmia bicornis, representing extensive, intermediate and limited foraging traits. We found that extensive foragers (A. mellifera) experienced the highest pesticide risk-additive toxicity-weighted concentrations. However, only intermediate (B. terrestris) and limited foragers (O. bicornis) responded to landscape context-experiencing lower... (More)
Widespread contamination of ecosystems with pesticides threatens non-target organisms. However, the extent to which life-history traits affect pesticide exposure and resulting risk in different landscape contexts remains poorly understood. We address this for bees across an agricultural land-use gradient based on pesticide assays of pollen and nectar collected by Apis mellifera, Bombus terrestris and Osmia bicornis, representing extensive, intermediate and limited foraging traits. We found that extensive foragers (A. mellifera) experienced the highest pesticide risk-additive toxicity-weighted concentrations. However, only intermediate (B. terrestris) and limited foragers (O. bicornis) responded to landscape context-experiencing lower pesticide risk with less agricultural land. Pesticide risk correlated among bee species and between food sources and was greatest in A. mellifera-collected pollen-useful information for future postapproval pesticide monitoring. We provide foraging trait- and landscape-dependent information on the occurrence, concentration and identity of pesticides that bees encounter to estimate pesticide risk, which is necessary for more realistic risk assessment and essential information for tracking policy goals to reduce pesticide risk.
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- author
- Knapp, Jessica L
LU
; Nicholson, Charlie C
LU
; Jonsson, Ove
; de Miranda, Joachim R
and Rundlöf, Maj
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-02-27
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Nature Ecology and Evolution
- volume
- 7
- pages
- 547 - 556
- publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- external identifiers
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- pmid:36849537
- scopus:85148947833
- ISSN
- 2397-334X
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41559-023-01990-5
- project
- Exposure and Effects of Chemical Mixtures on Bees (MixToxBee) - Supporting Pesticide Monitoring and Bee Risk Assessment
- Quantifying exposure and effects of pesticides on bee to inform the integration of pollinator and pest management
- language
- English
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- yes
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- e98dd72a-6b4c-4d00-a19e-b99e58ef067a
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- 2023-03-06 10:07:54
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- 2024-06-26 12:41:40
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