Legacy of historic ozone exposure on plant community and food web structure

Information on whole community responses is needed to predict direction and magnitude of changes in plant and animal abundance under global changes. This study quantifies the effect of past ozone exposure on a weed community structure and arthropod colonization. We used the soil seed bank resulting from a long-term ozone exposure to reestablish the plant community under a new low-pollution environment. Two separate experiments using the same original soil seed bank were conducted. Plant and arthropod richness and species abundance was assessed during two years. We predicted that exposure to episodic high concentrations of ozone during a series of growing cycles would result in plant assemblies with lower diversity (lower species richness and higher dominance), due to an increase in dominance of the stress tolerant species and the elimination of the ozone-sensitive species. As a consequence, arthropod-plant interactions would also be changed. Species richness of the recruited plant communities from different exposure histories was similar (about 15). However, the relative abundance of the dominant species varied according to history of exposure, with two annual species dominating ozone enriched plots (90 ppb: Spergula arvensis, and 120 ppb: Calandrinia ciliata). Being consistent both years, the proportion of carnivore species was significantly higher in plots with history of higher ozone concentration (about)3.4 and about 7.7 fold higher in 90 ppb and 120 ppb plots, respectively). Our study provides evidence that, past history of pollution might be as relevant as management practices in structuring agroecosystems, since we show that an increase in tropospheric ozone may influence biotic communities even years after the exposure.

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Principais autores:	Martínez Ghersa, María Alejandra, Menéndez, Analía Inés, Gundel, Pedro Emilio, Folcia, Ana María, Romero, Ana María, Landesmann, Jennifer Brenda, Ventura, Laura, Ghersa, Claudio Marco
Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article biblioteca
Idioma:	eng
Assuntos:	CALANDRINIA CILIATA, CARYOPHYLLACEAE, FOOD WEB, LIMIT OF QUANTITATION, NONHUMAN, OZONE LAYER, PLANT COMMUNITY, POPULATION ABUNDANCE, SPECIES DIVERSITY, SPECIES DOMINANCE, SPECIES RICHNESS, SPERGULA ARVENSIS, TROPOSPHERE, AIR POLLUTANT, ANIMAL, ARGENTINA, ARTHROPOD, ATMOSPHERE, BIODIVERSITY, DRUG EFFECTS, FOOD CHAIN, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING, PARASITOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, PLANT DISPERSAL, POPULATION DYNAMICS, TOXICITY, WEED, OZONE, PLANT WEEDS,
Acesso em linha:	http://ri.agro.uba.ar/greenstone3/library/collection/arti/document/2017martinezghersa
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