MULTICLIM: Effects of climate change in a multiple stress multispecies perspective

MULTICLIM is financed by the Research Council of Norway (RCN) through the large-scale Programme on Climate Research (KLIMAFORSK).

Hypogastrura viatica. Photo credit: Hans Petter Leinaas. Large photo.

Are springtails affected by plant protection products?

Does climate change in terms of drought and increased temperatures pose a threat to springtails?

Is the effect on springtails more negative when they are exposed to both a harmful chemical and changed environmental conditions?

Are Arctic springtail populations better adapted for tackling multiple stressors than southern populations?

About the project

Springtails (Collembola) are micro-arthropods that live all over the world where we can find soil, contributing to the decomposition of organic matter and making nutrients available for uptake by plants. They control the distribution and abundance of microbial communities, ensuring good soil quality needed for healthy terrestrial ecosystems. The human population depend on a highly efficient agriculture, which leads to the use of crop-protecting pesticides, such as neonicotinoids. Plant protection chemicals might leach from their applied area with surface run-off and affect non-targeted species, such as springtails. A changing climate is introducing additional stressors to soil communities. Increased temperatures include subsequent responses such as drought or increased precipitation leading to saturation of the soil with water. Climatic stressors interacting with anthropogenic pollutants may be unpredictable, causing both synergistic or antagonistic responses in populations. 

Folsomia quadrioculata. Photo credit: Hans Petter Leinaas.

Is climatic stress affecting populations’ ability to tolerate anthropogenic pollutants, and is the exposure to pollutants affecting their ability to tolerate climatic stress? By combining methods from different disciplines, the project MULTICLIM will focus on how life history traits in springtails are shaped by climatic variables, while also exposed to increased stress by an anthropogenic pollutant. We include an Arctic population and a population from southern Norway of two ecologically relevant species to examine if their local adaptations affect their tolerance to multiple stressors. The results will provide urgently needed knowledge of biological impacts of multiple stressors of importance to management and food production.

Financing

This project is funded by The Research Council of Norway.

Period

Start: 16.04.2018. End: 15.04.2022

Publications

  • Sengupta, Sagnik; Leinaas, Hans Petter; van Gestel, Cornelis A.M.; Jager, Tjalling; Rundberget, Thomas & Borgå, Katrine (2023). High sensitivity to dietary imidacloprid exposure in early life stages of Folsomia quadrioculata (Collembola) populations from contrasting climates. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. Applied Soil Ecology. ISSN 0929-1393. 187. doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2023.104880. Full text in Research Archive
  • Silva, Andreia Sofia Jorge; Kristiansen, Silje Marie; Sengupta, Sagnik; van Gestel, Cornelis A. M.; Leinaas, Hans Petter & Borgå, Katrine (2023). Using dietary exposure to determine sub-lethal effects from imidacloprid in two springtail (Collembola) species. Ecotoxicology. ISSN 0963-9292. 32, p. 1209–1220. doi: 10.1007/s10646-023-02715-x. Full text in Research Archive
  • Konestabo, Heidi Sjursen; Birkemoe, Tone; Leinaas, Hans Petter; van Gestel, Cornelis A.M.; Sengupta, Sagnik & Borgå, Katrine (2022). Pesticide effects on the abundance of springtails and mites in field mesocosms at an agricultural site. Ecotoxicology. ISSN 0963-9292. 31(9), p. 1450–1461. doi: 10.1007/s10646-022-02599-3. Full text in Research Archive
  • Pedersen, Åshild Ønvik; Convey, P.; Newsham, Kevin K.; Mosbacher, Jesper Bruun; Fuglei, Eva & Ravolainen, Virve [Show all 47 contributors for this article] (2022). Five decades of terrestrial and freshwater research at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard. Polar Research. ISSN 0800-0395. 41. doi: 10.33265/polar.v41.6310. Full text in Research Archive
  • Kristiansen, Silje Marie; Borgå, Katrine; Rundberget, Jan Thomas & Leinaas, Hans Petter (2021). Effects on Life-History Traits of Hypogastrura viatica (Collembola) Exposed to Imidacloprid Through Soil or Diet. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. ISSN 0730-7268. 40(11), p. 3111–3122. doi: 10.1002/etc.5187. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sengupta, Sagnik; Leinaas, Hans Petter; van Gestel, Cornelis A.M.; Rundberget, Jan Thomas & Borgå, Katrine (2020). A Multiple Life‐History Trait–Based and Time‐Resolved Assessment of Imidacloprid Effects and Recovery in the Widely Distributed Collembolan Folsomia quadrioculata. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. ISSN 0730-7268. 40(1), p. 139–147. doi: 10.1002/etc.4897.

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Contact

Contact:
Katrine Borgå
katrine.borga ibv.uio.no
 

 

Participants

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