Assessing the Vulnerabilities of Vertebrate Species to Light and Noise Pollution: Expert Surveys Illuminate the Impacts on Specialist Species.

Autor:	Ditmer MA; School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382, USA., Francis CD; Department of Biological Science, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA., Barber JR; Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA., Stoner DC; Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA., Seymoure BM; Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.; Living Earth Collaborative, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63111, USA., Fristrup KM; National Park Service, Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division, Fort Collins, CO 80525, USA., Carter NH; School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Integrative and comparative biology [Integr Comp Biol] 2021 Oct 04; Vol. 61 (3), pp. 1202-1215.
DOI:	10.1093/icb/icab091
Abstrakt:	Global expansion of lighting and noise pollution alters how animals receive and interpret environmental cues. However, we lack a cross-taxon understanding of how animal traits influence species vulnerability to this growing phenomenon. This knowledge is needed to improve the design and implementation of policies that mitigate or reduce sensory pollutants. We present results from an expert knowledge survey that quantified the relative influence of 21 ecological, anatomical, and physiological traits on the vulnerability of terrestrial vertebrates to elevated levels of anthropogenic lighting and noise. We aimed not only to quantify the importance of threats and the relative influence of traits as viewed by sensory and wildlife experts, but to examine knowledge gaps based on the variation in responses. Identifying traits that had less consensus can guide future research for strengthening ecologists' and conservation biologists' understanding of sensory abilities. Our findings, based on 280 responses of expert opinion, highlight the increasing recognition among experts that sensory pollutants are important to consider in management and conservation decisions. Participant responses show mounting threats to species with narrow niches; especially habitat specialists, nocturnal species, and those with the greatest ability to differentiate environmental visual and auditory cues. Our results call attention to the threat specialist species face and provide a generalizable understanding of which species require additional considerations when developing conservation policies and mitigation strategies in a world altered by expanding sensory pollutant footprints. We provide a step-by-step example for translating these results to on-the-ground conservation planning using two species as case studies. (© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. All rights reserved. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
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