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O'Malley K, McNamara P, Marshall C, LaMartina EL, Lam TD, Ali N, McDonald W. Environmental drivers impact the accumulation and diversity of antibiotic resistance in green stormwater infrastructure. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2024; 469:133923. [PMID: 38457973 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.133923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2023] [Revised: 01/12/2024] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024]
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Antibiotic resistance poses an urgent public health concern, with the environment playing a crucial role in the development and dissemination of resistant bacteria. There is a growing body of research indicating that stormwater is a significant source and transport vector of resistance elements. This research sought to characterize the role of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI), designed for stormwater infiltration, in accumulating and propagating antibiotic resistance in the urban water cycle. Sampling included 24 full-scale GSI systems representing three distinct types of GSI - bioswales, bioretention cells, and constructed wetlands. The results indicated that GSI soils accumulate antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) at elevated concentrations compared to nonengineered soils. Bioretention cells specifically harbored higher abundances of ARGs, suggesting that the type of GSI influences ARG accumulation. Interestingly, ARG diversity in GSI soils was not impacted by the type of GSI design or the diversity of the microbial community and mobile genetic elements. Instead, environmental factors (catchment imperviousness, metals, nutrients, and salts) were identified as significant drivers of ARG diversity. These findings highlight how environmental selective pressures in GSI promote ARG persistence and proliferation independently of the microbial community. Therefore, GSI systems have the potential to be a substantial contributor of abundant and diverse ARGs to the urban water cycle.
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- Kassidy O'Malley
- Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA
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- Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA
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- Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA
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- Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA
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- Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA.
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Lowe EC, Steven R, Morris RL, Parris KM, Aguiar AC, Webb CE, Bugnot AB, Dafforn KA, Connolly RM, Mayer Pinto M. Supporting urban ecosystem services across terrestrial, marine and freshwater realms. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 817:152689. [PMID: 34974015 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Revised: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The terrestrial, freshwater and marine realms all provide essential ecosystem services in urban environments. However, the services provided by each realm are often considered independently, which ignores the synergies between them and risks underestimating the benefits derived collectively. Greater research collaboration across these realms, and an integrated approach to management decisions can help to support urban developments and restoration projects in maintaining or enhancing ecosystem services. The aim of this paper is to highlight the synergies and trade-offs among ecosystem services provided by each realm and to offer suggestions on how to improve current practice. We use case studies to illustrate the flow of services across realms. In our call to better integrate research and management across realms, we present a framework that provides a 6-step process for conducting collaborative research and management with an Australian perspective. Our framework considers unifying language, sharing, and understanding of desired outcomes, conducting cost-benefit analyses to minimise trade-offs, using multiple modes of communication for stakeholders, and applying research outcomes to inform regulation. It can be applied to improve collaboration among researchers, managers and planners from all realms, leading to strategic allocation of resources, increased protection of urban natural resources and improved environmental regulation with broad public support.
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- Elizabeth C Lowe
- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia.
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; School of Biological Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- National Centre for Coasts and Climate, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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- Medical Entomology, NSW Health Pathology, Westmead Hospital, NSW 2145, Australia; Marie Bashir Institute of Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences, Mosman, NSW 2088, Australia
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences, Mosman, NSW 2088, Australia; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
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- Australian Rivers Institute - Estuaries and Coasts, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences, Mosman, NSW 2088, Australia; Centre of Marine Science and Innovation, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
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In response to the global loss and degradation of wetland ecosystems, extensive efforts have been made to reestablish wetland habitat and function in landscapes where they once existed. The reintroduction of wetland ecosystem services has largely occurred in two categories: constructed wetlands (CW) for wastewater treatment, and restored wetlands (RW) for the renewal or creation of multiple ecosystem services. This is the first review to compare the objectives, design, performance, and management of CW and RW, and to assess the status of efforts to combine CW and RW as Integrated Constructed Wetlands (ICW). These wetland systems are assessed for their ecological attributes and their relative contribution to ecosystem services. CW are designed to process a wide variety of wastewaters using surface, subsurface, or hybrid treatment systems. Designed and maintained within narrow hydrologic parameters, CW can be highly effective at contaminant transformation, remediation, and sequestration. The ecosystem services provided by CW are limited by their status as high-stress, successionally arrested systems with low landscape connectivity and an effective lifespan. RW are typically situated and designed for a greater degree of connection with regional ecosystems. After construction, revegetation, and early successional management, RW are intended as self-maintaining ecosystems. This affords RW a broader range of ecosystem services than CW, though RW system performance can be highly variable and subject to invasive species and landscape-level stressors. Where the spatial and biogeochemical contexts are favorable, ICW present the opportunity to couple CW and RW functions, thereby enhancing the replacement of wetland services on the landscape.
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Peach ME, Richardson JB, Friedland AJ. Legacies of Nutrient Accumulation and Depletion in Residential Ecosystems. Ecosystems 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00623-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Schell CJ, Stanton LA, Young JK, Angeloni LM, Lambert JE, Breck SW, Murray MH. The evolutionary consequences of human-wildlife conflict in cities. Evol Appl 2021; 14:178-197. [PMID: 33519964 PMCID: PMC7819564 DOI: 10.1111/eva.13131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2020] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Human-wildlife interactions, including human-wildlife conflict, are increasingly common as expanding urbanization worldwide creates more opportunities for people to encounter wildlife. Wildlife-vehicle collisions, zoonotic disease transmission, property damage, and physical attacks to people or their pets have negative consequences for both people and wildlife, underscoring the need for comprehensive strategies that mitigate and prevent conflict altogether. Management techniques often aim to deter, relocate, or remove individual organisms, all of which may present a significant selective force in both urban and nonurban systems. Management-induced selection may significantly affect the adaptive or nonadaptive evolutionary processes of urban populations, yet few studies explicate the links among conflict, wildlife management, and urban evolution. Moreover, the intensity of conflict management can vary considerably by taxon, public perception, policy, religious and cultural beliefs, and geographic region, which underscores the complexity of developing flexible tools to reduce conflict. Here, we present a cross-disciplinary perspective that integrates human-wildlife conflict, wildlife management, and urban evolution to address how social-ecological processes drive wildlife adaptation in cities. We emphasize that variance in implemented management actions shapes the strength and rate of phenotypic and evolutionary change. We also consider how specific management strategies either promote genetic or plastic changes, and how leveraging those biological inferences could help optimize management actions while minimizing conflict. Investigating human-wildlife conflict as an evolutionary phenomenon may provide insights into how conflict arises and how management plays a critical role in shaping urban wildlife phenotypes.
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- Christopher J. Schell
- School of Interdisciplinary Arts and SciencesUniversity of Washington TacomaTacomaWAUSA
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- Department of Zoology and PhysiologyUniversity of WyomingLaramieWYUSA
- Program in EcologyUniversity of WyomingLaramieWYUSA
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- USDA‐WS‐National Wildlife Research Center‐Predator Research FacilityMillvilleUTUSA
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- Program in Environmental Studies and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of Colorado‐BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- USDA‐WS‐National Wildlife Research CenterFort CollinsCOUSA
- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation BiologyFort CollinsCOUSA
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- Urban Wildlife Institute and Davee Center for Epidemiology and EndocrinologyChicagoILUSA
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Alberti M, Palkovacs E, Roches S, Meester L, Brans K, Govaert L, Grimm NB, Harris NC, Hendry AP, Schell CJ, Szulkin M, Munshi-South J, Urban MC, Verrelli BC. The Complexity of Urban Eco-evolutionary Dynamics. Bioscience 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaa079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Urbanization is changing Earth's ecosystems by altering the interactions and feedbacks between the fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes that maintain life. Humans in cities alter the eco-evolutionary play by simultaneously changing both the actors and the stage on which the eco-evolutionary play takes place. Urbanization modifies land surfaces, microclimates, habitat connectivity, ecological networks, food webs, species diversity, and species composition. These environmental changes can lead to changes in phenotypic, genetic, and cultural makeup of wild populations that have important consequences for ecosystem function and the essential services that nature provides to human society, such as nutrient cycling, pollination, seed dispersal, food production, and water and air purification. Understanding and monitoring urbanization-induced evolutionary changes is important to inform strategies to achieve sustainability. In the present article, we propose that understanding these dynamics requires rigorous characterization of urbanizing regions as rapidly evolving, tightly coupled human–natural systems. We explore how the emergent properties of urbanization affect eco-evolutionary dynamics across space and time. We identify five key urban drivers of change—habitat modification, connectivity, heterogeneity, novel disturbances, and biotic interactions—and highlight the direct consequences of urbanization-driven eco-evolutionary change for nature's contributions to people. Then, we explore five emerging complexities—landscape complexity, urban discontinuities, socio-ecological heterogeneity, cross-scale interactions, legacies and time lags—that need to be tackled in future research. We propose that the evolving metacommunity concept provides a powerful framework to study urban eco-evolutionary dynamics.
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- Marina Alberti
- Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,University of California, Santa Cruz, California
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology Evolution, and Conservation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Leibniz Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei, Berlin, Germany, and with the Institute of Biology at Freie Universität Berlin, also in Berlin, Germany
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- Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology Evolution, and Conservation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; with the Department of Aquatic Ecology, in the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, in Dübendorf, Switzerland; and with the University Research Priority Programme on Global Change and Biodiversity at the University of Zurich, in Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, Washington
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- Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station, Fordham University, Armonk, New York
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
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- Center for Life Sciences Education, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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Harada Y, Whitlow TH. Urban Rooftop Agriculture: Challenges to Science and Practice. FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS 2020. [DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2020.00076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Aloisio JM, Palmer MI, Tuininga AR, Lewis JD. Introduced and native plant species composition of vacant unmanaged green roofs in New York City. Urban Ecosyst 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11252-020-00992-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Ksiazek-Mikenas K, Fant JB, Skogen KA. Pollinator-Mediated Gene Flow Connects Green Roof Populations Across the Urban Matrix: A Paternity Analysis of the Self-Compatible Forb Penstemon hirsutus. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Aloisio JM, Palmer MI, Tuininga AR, Lewis JD. Plant Colonization of Green Roofs Is Affected by Composition of Established Native Plant Communities. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Harada Y, Whitlow TH, Templer PH, Howarth RW, Walter MT, Bassuk NL, Russell-Anelli J. Nitrogen Biogeochemistry of an Urban Rooftop Farm. Front Ecol Evol 2018. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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