Claustral colony founding does not prevent sensitivity to the detrimental effects of azole fungicides on the fecundity of ants
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18470%2F21%3A50018002" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18470/21:50018002 - isvavai.cz</a>
Nalezeny alternativní kódy
RIV/00216208:11120/21:43920834
Výsledek na webu
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479720316650?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479720316650?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111740" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111740</a>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Claustral colony founding does not prevent sensitivity to the detrimental effects of azole fungicides on the fecundity of ants
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
Azole fungicides (benzimidazoles, triazoles and imidazoles) are among the most widely used agrochemicals in the world. Unfortunately, azole fungicides are increasingly recognized for playing the role of endocrine disruptors in non-target organisms. Previously, the fecundity of ants with semi-claustral colony founding was found to be severely decreased in response to field-realistic concentrations of azole fungicides. However, during claustral colony founding, the ant queens do not feed and could therefore be protected against effects of agrochemicals applied during the colony founding. In the present study, we hypothesized that claustral colony founding is associated with a lower risk of oral exposure of ant queens to azole fungicides. We exposed queens of a common farmland ant species with claustral colony founding, Lasius niger, to four azole fungicides (epoxiconazole, flusilazole, prochloraz and thiophanate-methyl) that are commonly used in foliar applications and analyzed the differences in fecundity between fungicide-treated groups and the control water-treated group. We found that oral exposure to all four tested formulations of azole fungicides decreased the fecundity of L. niger queens. The decreases in fecundity ranged from 30.5% (epoxiconazole) to 40.3% (prochloraz), although the concentrations of fungicides used were several times lower than the minimum effective concentrations used to eliminate the target fungi by foliar applications of examined fungicides on various crops. Ants with both claustral and semi-claustral colony founding are highly vulnerable to field-realistic concentrations of azole fungicides that are sprayed in foliar applications. Azole fungicides substantially decrease the fitness of ant queens and may explain part of the recently observed decreases in farmland insect abundance and diversity.
Název v anglickém jazyce
Claustral colony founding does not prevent sensitivity to the detrimental effects of azole fungicides on the fecundity of ants
Popis výsledku anglicky
Azole fungicides (benzimidazoles, triazoles and imidazoles) are among the most widely used agrochemicals in the world. Unfortunately, azole fungicides are increasingly recognized for playing the role of endocrine disruptors in non-target organisms. Previously, the fecundity of ants with semi-claustral colony founding was found to be severely decreased in response to field-realistic concentrations of azole fungicides. However, during claustral colony founding, the ant queens do not feed and could therefore be protected against effects of agrochemicals applied during the colony founding. In the present study, we hypothesized that claustral colony founding is associated with a lower risk of oral exposure of ant queens to azole fungicides. We exposed queens of a common farmland ant species with claustral colony founding, Lasius niger, to four azole fungicides (epoxiconazole, flusilazole, prochloraz and thiophanate-methyl) that are commonly used in foliar applications and analyzed the differences in fecundity between fungicide-treated groups and the control water-treated group. We found that oral exposure to all four tested formulations of azole fungicides decreased the fecundity of L. niger queens. The decreases in fecundity ranged from 30.5% (epoxiconazole) to 40.3% (prochloraz), although the concentrations of fungicides used were several times lower than the minimum effective concentrations used to eliminate the target fungi by foliar applications of examined fungicides on various crops. Ants with both claustral and semi-claustral colony founding are highly vulnerable to field-realistic concentrations of azole fungicides that are sprayed in foliar applications. Azole fungicides substantially decrease the fitness of ant queens and may explain part of the recently observed decreases in farmland insect abundance and diversity.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science
CEP obor
—
OECD FORD obor
10618 - Ecology
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
—
Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2021
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
Journal of Environmental Management
ISSN
0301-4797
e-ISSN
—
Svazek periodika
280
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
February
Stát vydavatele periodika
GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska
Počet stran výsledku
5
Strana od-do
"Article Number: 111740"
Kód UT WoS článku
000613566900010
EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
2-s2.0-85097054444