Environmental, geographical and time-related impacts on avian malaria infections in native and introduced populations of house sparrows (Passer domesticus), a globally invasive species
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Ferraguti, Martina; Magallanes, Sergio; Jiménez-Peñuela, Jéssica; Martínez-de la Puente, Josué; Garcia-Longoria, Luz; Figuerola, Jordi; Muriel, Jaime; Albayrak, Tamer; Bensch, Staffan; Bonneaud, Camille; Clarke, Rohan H.; Czirják, Gábor Á.; Dimitrov, Dimitar; Espinoza, Kathya; Ewen, John G.; Ishtiaq, Farah; Flores-Saavedra, Wendy; Garamszegi, László Zsolt; Hellgren, Olof; Horakova, Dita; Huyvaert, Kathryn P.; Jensen, Henrik; Križanauskienė, Asta; Lima, Marcos R.; Lujan-Vega, Charlene; Magnussen, Eyðfinn; Martin, Lynn B.; Matson, Kevin D.; Møller, Anders Pape; Munclinger, Pavel; Palinauskas, Vaidas; Pap, Péter L.; Pérez-Tris, Javier; Renner, Swen C.; Ricklefs, Robert; Scebba, Sergio; Sehgal, Ravinder N. M.; Soler Cruz, Manuel; Szöllősi, Eszter; Valkiūnas, Gediminas; Westerdahl, Helena; Zehtindjiev, Pavel; Marzal, AlfonsoFecha
2023Referencia bibliográfica
Ferraguti, M., Magallanes, S., Jiménez-Peñuela, J., Martínez-de la Puente, J., Garcia-Longoria, L., Figuerola, J., Muriel, J., Albayrak, T., Bensch, S., Bonneaud, C., Clarke, R. H., Czirják, G. Á., Dimitrov, D., Espinoza, K., Ewen, J. G., Ishtiaq, F., Flores-Saavedra, W., Garamszegi, L. Z., Hellgren, O. … Marzal, A. (2023). Environmental, geographical and time-related impacts on avian malaria infections in native and introduced populations of house sparrows (Passer domesticus), a globally invasive species. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13651
Patrocinador
Consejería de Economía, Innovación, Ciencia y Empleo, Junta de Andalucía, Grant/Award Number: P11-RNM-7038; Fundación BBVA, Grant/Award Number: PR(19_ECO_0070; Junta de Extremadura, Grant/Award Number: IB20089 and PO17024; Marie Sklodowska- Curie Actions, Grant/Award Number: 844285; Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Grant/Award Number: FJCI-2017-34109 and FJCI-2017-34394; Proyectos I+D+i of Junta de Andalucía 2021, Grant/Award Number: ProyExcel_00049; Universidad de Castilla- La ManchaResumen
Aim
The increasing spread of vector-borne diseases has resulted in severe health concerns for humans, domestic animals and wildlife, with changes in land use and the introduction of invasive species being among the main possible causes for this increase. We explored several ecological drivers potentially affecting the local prevalence and richness of avian malaria parasite lineages in native and introduced house sparrows (Passer domesticus) populations.
Location
Global.
Time period
2002–2019.
Major taxa studied
Avian Plasmodium parasites in house sparrows.
Methods
We analysed data from 2,220 samples from 69 localities across all continents, except Antarctica. The influence of environment (urbanization index and human density), geography (altitude, latitude, hemisphere) and time (bird breeding season and years since introduction) were analysed using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) and random forests.
Results
Overall, 670 sparrows (30.2%) were infected with 22 Plasmodium lineages. In native populations, parasite prevalence was positively related to urbanization index, with the highest prevalence values in areas with intermediate urbanization levels. Likewise, in introduced populations, prevalence was positively associated with urbanization index; however, higher infection occurred in areas with either extreme high or low levels of urbanization. In introduced populations, the number of parasite lineages increased with altitude and with the years elapsed since the establishment of sparrows in a new locality. Here, after a decline in the number of parasite lineages in the first 30 years, an increase from 40 years onwards was detected.
Main conclusions
Urbanization was related to parasite prevalence in both native and introduced bird populations. In invaded areas, altitude and time since bird introduction were related to the number of Plasmodium lineages found to be infecting sparrows.