Predicting impacts of chemicals from organisms to ecosystem service delivery: A case study of insecticide impacts on a freshwater lake

Galic, Nika; Salice, Chris J.; Birnir, Bjorn; Bruins, Randall J. F.; Ducrot, Virginie; Jager, Henriette I.; Kanarek, Andrew; Pastorok, Robert; Rebarber, Richard; Thorbek, Pernille; Forbes, Valery E.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.187

Title: Predicting impacts of chemicals from organisms to ecosystem service delivery: A case study of insecticide impacts on a freshwater lake

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Assessing and managing risks of anthropogenic activities to ecological systems is necessary to ensure sustained delivery of ecosystem services for future generations. Ecological models provide a means of quantitatively linking measured risk assessment endpoints with protection goals, by integrating potential chemical effects with species life history, ecological interactions, environmental drivers and other potential stressors. In this work we demonstrate how an ecosystem modeling approach can be used to quantify insecticide-induced impacts on ecosystem services provided by a lake from toxicity data for organism-level endpoints. We used a publicly available aquatic ecosystem model AQUATOX that integrates environmental fate of chemicals and their impacts on food webs in aquatic environments. By simulating a range of exposure patterns, we illustrated how exposure to a hypothetical insecticide could affect aquatic species populations (e.g., recreational fish abundance) and environmental properties (e.g., water clarity) that would in turn affect delivery of ecosystem services. Different results were observed for different species of fish, thus the decision to manage the use of the insecticide for ecosystem services derived by anglers depends upon the favored species of fish. In our hypothetical shallow reservoir, water clarity was mostly driven by changes in food web dynamics, specifically the presence of zooplankton.more »« less

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^[1]; Salice, Chris J. ^[2]; Birnir, Bjorn ^[3]; Bruins, Randall J. F. ^[4]; Ducrot, Virginie ^[5];

^[6]; Kanarek, Andrew ^[7]; Pastorok, Robert ^[8]; Rebarber, Richard ^[9]; Thorbek, Pernille ^[10]; Forbes, Valery E. ^[11]

Syngenta Crop Protection LLC., Greensboro, NC (United States)
Towson Univ., Towson, MD (United States)
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Cincinnati, OH (United States)
Bayer CropScience AG (BCS), Monheim am Rhein (Germany)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Integral Consulting, Woodinville, WA (United States)
Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)
Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell (United Kingdom); BASF Agricultural Center, Limburgerhof (Germany)
Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN (United States)

Publication Date:: Fri May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2019

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF)

OSTI Identifier:: 1523727

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; DBI-1300426

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Science of the Total Environment

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 682; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0048-9697

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Ecosystem services; Aquatic ecosystem model; Ecological valuation; Fishers: Swimmers; Trophic cascade; Ecological risk assessment

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                    Galic, Nika, Salice, Chris J., Birnir, Bjorn, Bruins, Randall J. F., Ducrot, Virginie, Jager, Henriette I., Kanarek, Andrew, Pastorok, Robert, Rebarber, Richard, Thorbek, Pernille, and Forbes, Valery E. Predicting impacts of chemicals from organisms to ecosystem service delivery: A case study of insecticide impacts on a freshwater lake.  United States: N. p., 2019. 
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                    Galic, Nika, Salice, Chris J., Birnir, Bjorn, Bruins, Randall J. F., Ducrot, Virginie, Jager, Henriette I., Kanarek, Andrew, Pastorok, Robert, Rebarber, Richard, Thorbek, Pernille, & Forbes, Valery E. Predicting impacts of chemicals from organisms to ecosystem service delivery: A case study of insecticide impacts on a freshwater lake.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.187

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                    Galic, Nika, Salice, Chris J., Birnir, Bjorn, Bruins, Randall J. F., Ducrot, Virginie, Jager, Henriette I., Kanarek, Andrew, Pastorok, Robert, Rebarber, Richard, Thorbek, Pernille, and Forbes, Valery E. Fri .  
"Predicting impacts of chemicals from organisms to ecosystem service delivery: A case study of insecticide impacts on a freshwater lake".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.187.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1523727.

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@article{osti_1523727,

  title        = {Predicting impacts of chemicals from organisms to ecosystem service delivery: A case study of insecticide impacts on a freshwater lake},

  author       = {Galic, Nika and Salice, Chris J. and Birnir, Bjorn and Bruins, Randall J. F. and Ducrot, Virginie and Jager, Henriette I. and Kanarek, Andrew and Pastorok, Robert and Rebarber, Richard and Thorbek, Pernille and Forbes, Valery E.},

  abstractNote = {Assessing and managing risks of anthropogenic activities to ecological systems is necessary to ensure sustained delivery of ecosystem services for future generations. Ecological models provide a means of quantitatively linking measured risk assessment endpoints with protection goals, by integrating potential chemical effects with species life history, ecological interactions, environmental drivers and other potential stressors. In this work we demonstrate how an ecosystem modeling approach can be used to quantify insecticide-induced impacts on ecosystem services provided by a lake from toxicity data for organism-level endpoints. We used a publicly available aquatic ecosystem model AQUATOX that integrates environmental fate of chemicals and their impacts on food webs in aquatic environments. By simulating a range of exposure patterns, we illustrated how exposure to a hypothetical insecticide could affect aquatic species populations (e.g., recreational fish abundance) and environmental properties (e.g., water clarity) that would in turn affect delivery of ecosystem services. Different results were observed for different species of fish, thus the decision to manage the use of the insecticide for ecosystem services derived by anglers depends upon the favored species of fish. In our hypothetical shallow reservoir, water clarity was mostly driven by changes in food web dynamics, specifically the presence of zooplankton. In contrast to the complex response by fishing value, water clarity increased with reduced insecticide use, which produced a monotonic increase in value by waders and swimmers. Our research clearly showed the importance of considering nonlinear ecosystem feedbacks where the presence of insecticide changed the modeled food-web dynamics in unexpected ways. Our study introduces one of the main advantages of using ecological models for risk assessment, namely the ability to generalize to meaningful levels of organization and to facilitate quantitative comparisons among alternative scenarios and associated trade-offs among them while explicitly accounting for different groups of beneficiaries.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.187},

  journal      = {Science of the Total Environment},

  number       = C,

  volume       = 682,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2019},

  month        = {Fri May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2019}

}

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