{"id":2285,"date":"2014-07-09T02:21:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T07:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2014-07-10T02:28:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T07:28:10","slug":"les-pesticides-correles-avec-le-declin-des-oiseaux-aux-pays-bas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/les-pesticides-correles-avec-le-declin-des-oiseaux-aux-pays-bas\/","title":{"rendered":"Link drawn between pesticide use and bird declines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2230\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/spreeuwIMG_984222_Altenburg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2230\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2230\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/spreeuwIMG_984222_Altenburg.jpg\" alt=\"The Common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) with gathered insect prey. This is one of the fifteen species shown to be affected by elevated imidacloprid concentrations in surface water in the Netherlands. (Photo credit: Jouke Altenburg, Radboud University)\" width=\"300\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/spreeuwIMG_984222_Altenburg.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/spreeuwIMG_984222_Altenburg-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Common starling (<em>Sturnus vulgaris<\/em>) with gathered insect prey. This is one of the fifteen species shown to be affected by elevated imidacloprid concentrations in surface water in the Netherlands. (Photo credit: Jouke Altenburg, Radboud University)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers in the Netherlands have drawn a link between use of the neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticide imidacloprid and declines in insect-eating birds. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The study found that in areas of the Netherlands<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"> where imidacloprid concentrations in surface water were highest &#8211; more than 20 nanograms per litre &#8211; bird populations tended to decline by 3.5 per cent on average annually. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">The authors suggest that by impacting the abundance of food sources, neonics have knock-on effects for bird populations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature13531.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Original research paper<\/em><\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0journal <em>Nature<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 9, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\">Caspar Hallmann, Radboud University, Netherlands<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\">Hans de Kroon, Radboud University, Netherlands<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\">Ruud Foppen, Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, Netherlands<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in the Netherlands have drawn a link between use of the neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticide imidacloprid and declines in insect-eating birds. The study found that in areas of the Netherlands where imidacloprid concentrations in surface water were highest &#8211; more than 20 nanograms per litre &#8211; bird populations tended to decline by 3.5 per cent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,170,114,1445,171,40,1847],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-birds","tag-conservation","tag-ecology","tag-insects","tag-pesticides"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/spreeuwIMG_984222_Altenburg.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-AR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}