Air pollution disproportionately impairs beneficial invertebrates: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Air pollution has the potential to disrupt ecologically- and economically-beneficial services provided by invertebrates, including pollination and natural pest regulation. To effectively predict and mitigate this disruption requires an understanding of how the impacts of air pollution vary between invertebrate groups. Here we conduct a global meta-analysis of 120 publications comparing the performance of different invertebrate functional groups in unpolluted and polluted atmospheres. We focus on the pollutants ozone, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and particulate matter. We show that beneficial invertebrate performance is reduced by air pollution, whereas the performance of plant pest invertebrates is not significantly affected. Ozone pollution has the most detrimental impacts, and these

SUBMITTER: Ryalls JMW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11239652 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature