Abstract
Chemical pollution is among the fastest-growing agents of global change. Synthetic chemicals with diverse modes-of-action are being detected in the tissues of wildlife and pervade entire food webs. Although such pollutants can elicit a range of sublethal effects on individual organisms, research on how chemical pollutants affect animal groups is severely lacking. Here we synthesise research from two related, but largely segregated fields - ecotoxicology and behavioural ecology - to examine pathways by which chemical contaminants could disrupt processes that govern the emergence, self-organisation, and collective function of animal groups. Our review provides a roadmap for prioritising the study of chemical pollutants within the context of sociality and highlights important methodological advancements for future research.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 789-802 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Trends in Ecology and Evolution |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| Early online date | 16 Jun 2022 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 16 Jun 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors thank Tamblyn Thomasson for her wildlife illustrations. They acknowledge financial and research support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation (to M.M.); the Oscar and Lilli Lamm Memorial Foundation (to M.M., M.G.B., and T.B.); the National Institutes of Health ( GM115509 to N.P.-W.) and National Science Foundation ( 2015662 to N.P.-W.); the Kempe Foundations ( SMK-1954 and SMK21-0069 to M.G.B.), and the Swedish Research Council Formas ( 2020-02293 to M.G.B., 2018-00828 to T.B., and 2020-00981 to E.S.M).
Funding Information:
The authors thank Tamblyn Thomasson for her wildlife illustrations. They acknowledge financial and research support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation (to M.M.); the Oscar and Lilli Lamm Memorial Foundation (to M.M. M.G.B. and T.B.); the National Institutes of Health (GM115509 to N.P.-W.) and National Science Foundation (2015662 to N.P.-W.); the Kempe Foundations (SMK-1954 and SMK21-0069 to M.G.B.), and the Swedish Research Council Formas (2020-02293 to M.G.B. 2018-00828 to T.B. and 2020-00981 to E.S.M). The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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