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Responses of macroinvertebrate communities to pesticide application in irrigated rice fields

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The ability to recover to original states after disturbances makes macroinvertebrates useful tools for assessing the impacts of pesticides. Many studies showed that direct exposure to pesticides decreases macroinvertebrate richness and alters their composition. The main objective of this study was to assess recovery patterns in macroinvertebrate communities after pesticide application in irrigated rice fields. We analyzed short-term temporal dynamics of macroinvertebrate communities after application of the herbicides bispyribac-sodium and clomazone and the insecticide chlorantraniliprole, over the rice-growing season in southern Brazil. We selected three conventional rice fields and the recovery of macroinvertebrate communities was also compared with three adjacent natural ponds. The study was developed from November 2011 to February 2012 (rice-growing season). Five macroinvertebrate collections were carried out 3, 7, 14, 38, and 60 days after pesticide application (November 25). Rice fields showed lower richness and abundance than ponds in the period immediately after pesticide application, and recovery rates in the richness of macroinvertebrate communities were more conspicuous as pesticide residuals dissipated from the fields. Macroinvertebrate community structure in rice fields also became more similar to natural ponds as pesticide traces were scarcer. However, macroinvertebrate abundance patterns were not related to pesticide concentrations in the fields. Our results supported the general hypothesis on the negative effects of pesticide application on macroinvertebrate community in irrigated rice fields, although other environmental features (e.g., length of the flooded period) also contributed to explain temporal dynamics in the macroinvertebrate communities from irrigated rice fields.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thanks Dr. Claudio Mario Mundstock and Graziela Scherer from IRGA for helpful comments in the beginning of research. We are grateful to all private land owners that authorized the use of their rice fields for our research. We declare that the data collection complied with Brazilian current environmental laws (Sistema de Autorização e Informação em Biodiversidade-SISBIO number 24882-2).

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This research was supported by funds from UNISINOS (number 02.00.023/00-0), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq; grant number 473123-2010-0), and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (FAPERGS, PqG 02/2011). LM and CS hold Research Productivity Grants from CNPq. ICMF held a scholarship from Instituto Riograndense do Arroz (IRGA). MMP and DSK held a scholarship from FAPERGS/CAPES. NK was supported by a JSPS KAKENHI grant (number 25830154).

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    Cristina Stenert, Íris C. M. F. de Mello, Mateus M. Pires, Débora S. Knauth & Leonardo Maltchik

  2. Biodiversity Division, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, 3-1-3 Kannondai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-8604, Japan

    Naoki Katayama

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Stenert, C., de Mello, Í.C.M.F., Pires, M.M. et al. Responses of macroinvertebrate communities to pesticide application in irrigated rice fields. Environ Monit Assess 190, 74 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-017-6425-1

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