TY - JOUR
T1 - The chemical landscape of tropical mammals in the Anthropocene
AU - Chapman, Colin A.
AU - Steiniche, Tessa
AU - Benavidez, Kathryn Michelle
AU - Sarkar, Dipto
AU - Amato, Katherine
AU - Serio-Silva, Juan Carlos
AU - Venier, Marta
AU - Wasserman, Michael D.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Claire Hemingway for helpful ideas and comments on this project. We would like to thank the funding sources that helped us develop some of these ideas, including the IDRC grant “Climate change and increasing human-wildlife conflict”. CAC was supported by the Wilson Center while writing this paper. MDW was funded by the Vice Provost for Research at Indiana University through the Faculty Research Support Program.
Funding Information:
We thank Claire Hemingway for helpful ideas and comments on this project. We would like to thank the funding sources that helped us develop some of these ideas, including the IDRC grant ?Climate change and increasing human-wildlife conflict?. CAC was supported by the Wilson Center while writing this paper. MDW was funded by the Vice Provost for Research at Indiana University through the Faculty Research Support Program.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - Sixty years ago, Rachel Carson published her book Silent Spring, which focused the world's attention on the dangers of pesticides. Since that time human impacts on the environment have accelerated and this has included reshaping the chemical landscape. Here we evaluate the severity of exposure of tropical terrestrial mammals to pesticides, pharmaceuticals, plastics, particulate matter associated with forest fires, and nanoparticles. We consider how these environmental contaminants interact with one another, with the endocrine and microbiome systems of mammals, and with other environmental changes to produce a larger negative impact than might initially be expected. Using this background and building on past conservation success, such as mending the ozone layer and decreasing acid rain, we tackle the difficult issue of how to construct meaningful policies and conservation plans that include a consideration of the chemical landscape. We document that policy solutions to improving the chemical landscape are already known and the path of how to construct a healthier planet is discernible.
AB - Sixty years ago, Rachel Carson published her book Silent Spring, which focused the world's attention on the dangers of pesticides. Since that time human impacts on the environment have accelerated and this has included reshaping the chemical landscape. Here we evaluate the severity of exposure of tropical terrestrial mammals to pesticides, pharmaceuticals, plastics, particulate matter associated with forest fires, and nanoparticles. We consider how these environmental contaminants interact with one another, with the endocrine and microbiome systems of mammals, and with other environmental changes to produce a larger negative impact than might initially be expected. Using this background and building on past conservation success, such as mending the ozone layer and decreasing acid rain, we tackle the difficult issue of how to construct meaningful policies and conservation plans that include a consideration of the chemical landscape. We document that policy solutions to improving the chemical landscape are already known and the path of how to construct a healthier planet is discernible.
KW - Conservation policy
KW - Ecosystem health
KW - Environmental contaminants
KW - Microplastics
KW - Pesticides
KW - Pharmaceuticals
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U2 - 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109522
DO - 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109522
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85127112885
VL - 269
JO - Biological Conservation
JF - Biological Conservation
SN - 0006-3207
M1 - 109522
ER -
