SynthesisNature communications2024
Air pollution disproportionately impairs beneficial invertebrates: a meta-analysis.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Top-Down and Bottom-Up Effects on Insect Herbivores Under Global Change-A Meta-Analysis.Ecology letters · 2026Pooled it
- Air pollution disproportionately impairs beneficial invertebrates: a meta-analysis.Nature communications · 2024Pooled it
- Weak and inconsistent associations between birch-feeding insects and pollution levels around two industrial towns during substantial emission decline (1988-2025).Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2026Article
- Air pollution across One Health domains.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2026Article
- Semiochemical-Mediated Host-Searching and Biological Control Potential ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Responses of tree defoliators to traffic-derived particulate matter and trace elements along a roadside pollution gradient.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Oxidizing pollutants can disrupt nestmate recognition in ants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- The differential impact of air pollution on insect chemical communication.Communications earth & environment · 2026Article
- Harnessing meta-analyses' insights in ecology and evolution research.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
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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 occur at concentrations below national and international air quality standards. Changes in invertebrate performance are not dependent on air pollutant concentrations, indicating that even low levels of pollution are damaging. Predicted increases in tropospheric ozone could result in unintended consequences to global invertebrate populations and their valuable ecological services.
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