Affiliation:
1. Biodiversity Division National Institute for Environmental Studies Tsukuba City Ibaraki Japan
2. Faculty of Environmental Earth Science Hokkaido University Sapporo Hokkaido Japan
Abstract
AbstractAnthropogenic noise is ubiquitous globally. However, we know little about how the impacts of noise alter fundamental ecosystem properties, such as resource consumption by invertebrate consumers. Using experimental noise manipulation and faecal DNA metabarcoding, we assessed how the direct and cross‐trophic indirect effects of noise altered the dietary richness and specializations of omnivorous grasshoppers in a grassland ecosystem. We found that the experimental noise treatment expanded grasshoppers' dietary richness and resulted in dietary generalizations in both noise‐exposed and adjacent relatively quieter areas. Unexpectedly, however, these dietary changes were primarily explained by the direct effect of noise not only in the noise‐exposed areas but also in the adjacent quieter areas and were relaxed by indirect effects of noise such as reduced birds and predation risk and increased grasshoppers. Our work suggests that noise pollution can be key in explaining the variation of invertebrate consumers' diets across a gradient of noise‐exposed environments.
Funder
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Subject
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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