Review on environmental alterations propagating from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems

R Schulz, M Bundschuh, R Gergs, CA Brühl… - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
Terrestrial inputs into freshwater ecosystems are a classical field of environmental science.
Resource fluxes (subsidy) from aquatic to terrestrial systems have been less studied …

[HTML][HTML] Contaminant fluxes across ecosystems mediated by aquatic insects

M Bundschuh, S Pietz, AP Roodt, JM Kraus - Current Opinion in Insect …, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Contaminants affect the subsidy of terrestrial food webs by adult aquatic
insects.•Quantitative and qualitative alterations in aquatic emergence induce effects in …

Bioaccumulation and toxicity of cadmium, copper, nickel, and zinc and their mixtures to aquatic insect communities

CA Mebane, TS Schmidt, JL Miller… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We describe 2 artificial stream experiments that exposed aquatic insect communities to zinc
(Zn), copper (Cu), and cadmium (year 2014) and to Zn, Cu, and nickel (year 2015). The …

Metamorphosis alters contaminants and chemical tracers in insects: implications for food webs

JM Kraus, DM Walters, JS Wesner… - … science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
Insects are integral to most freshwater and terrestrial food webs, but due to their
accumulation of environmental pollutants they are also contaminant vectors that threaten …

Common insecticide disrupts aquatic communities: a mesocosm-to-field ecological risk assessment of fipronil and its degradates in US streams

JL Miller, TS Schmidt, PC Van Metre, BJ Mahler… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Insecticides in streams are increasingly a global concern, yet information on safe
concentrations for aquatic ecosystems is sparse. In a 30-day mesocosm experiment …

Cross‐ecosystem impacts of stream pollution reduce resource and contaminant flux to riparian food webs

JM Kraus, TS Schmidt, DM Walters… - Ecological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of aquatic contaminants are propagated across ecosystem boundaries by
aquatic insects that export resources and contaminants to terrestrial food webs; however, the …

Metal exposure and sex shape the fatty acid profile of midges and reduce the aquatic subsidy to terrestrial food webs

S Pietz, MJ Kainz, H Schröder, A Manfrin… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aquatic micropollutants can be transported to terrestrial systems and their consumers by
emergent aquatic insects. However, micropollutants, such as metals, may also affect the flux …

Bifenthrin causes trophic cascade and altered insect emergence in mesocosms: implications for small streams

HA Rogers, TS Schmidt, BL Dabney… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Direct and indirect ecological effects of the widely used insecticide bifenthrin on stream
ecosystems are largely unknown. To investigate such effects, a manipulative experiment …

Metamorphosis Enhances the Effects of Metal Exposure on the Mayfly, Centroptilum triangulifer

JS Wesner, JM Kraus, TS Schmidt… - Environmental …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The response of larval aquatic insects to stressors such as metals is used to assess the
ecological condition of streams worldwide. However, nearly all larval insects metamorphose …

Benthic macroinvertebrate community response to salinization in headwater streams in Appalachia USA over multiple years

AJ Timpano, SH Schoenholtz, DJ Soucek… - Ecological indicators, 2018 - Elsevier
Salinization of freshwaters threatens aquatic ecosystems globally via effects that include
reductions in benthic macroinvertebrate diversity. Enhanced understanding of salinity effects …