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Rethinking the Connections between Ecosystem Services, Pollinators, Pollution, and Health: Focus on Air Pollution and Its Impacts
Ecosystems provide many services that are essential for human activities and for our well-being. Many regulation services are interconnected and are fundamental in mitigating and hindering the negative effects of several phenomena such as pollution. Pollution, in particular airborne particulate matt...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8910767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270689 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052997 |
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author | Plutino, Manuela Bianchetto, Elisa Durazzo, Alessandra Lucarini, Massimo Lucini, Luigi Negri, Ilaria |
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description | Ecosystems provide many services that are essential for human activities and for our well-being. Many regulation services are interconnected and are fundamental in mitigating and hindering the negative effects of several phenomena such as pollution. Pollution, in particular airborne particulate matter (PM), represents an important risk to human health. This perspective aims at providing a current framework that relates ecosystem services, regulating services, pollination, and human health, with particular regards to pollution and its impacts. A quantitative literature analysis on the topic has been adopted. The health repercussions of problems related to ecosystem services, with a focus on the effects of atmospheric particulate matter, have been highlighted in the work throughout a case study. In polluted environments, pollinators are severely exposed to airborne PM, which adheres to the insect body hairs and can be ingested through contaminated food resources, i.e., pollen and honey. This poses a serious risk for the health of pollinators with consequences on the pollination service and, ultimately, for human health. |
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spelling | pubmed-89107672022-03-11 Rethinking the Connections between Ecosystem Services, Pollinators, Pollution, and Health: Focus on Air Pollution and Its Impacts Plutino, Manuela Bianchetto, Elisa Durazzo, Alessandra Lucarini, Massimo Lucini, Luigi Negri, Ilaria Int J Environ Res Public Health Perspective Ecosystems provide many services that are essential for human activities and for our well-being. Many regulation services are interconnected and are fundamental in mitigating and hindering the negative effects of several phenomena such as pollution. Pollution, in particular airborne particulate matter (PM), represents an important risk to human health. This perspective aims at providing a current framework that relates ecosystem services, regulating services, pollination, and human health, with particular regards to pollution and its impacts. A quantitative literature analysis on the topic has been adopted. The health repercussions of problems related to ecosystem services, with a focus on the effects of atmospheric particulate matter, have been highlighted in the work throughout a case study. In polluted environments, pollinators are severely exposed to airborne PM, which adheres to the insect body hairs and can be ingested through contaminated food resources, i.e., pollen and honey. This poses a serious risk for the health of pollinators with consequences on the pollination service and, ultimately, for human health. MDPI 2022-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8910767/ /pubmed/35270689 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052997 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Perspective Plutino, Manuela Bianchetto, Elisa Durazzo, Alessandra Lucarini, Massimo Lucini, Luigi Negri, Ilaria Rethinking the Connections between Ecosystem Services, Pollinators, Pollution, and Health: Focus on Air Pollution and Its Impacts |
title | Rethinking the Connections between Ecosystem Services, Pollinators, Pollution, and Health: Focus on Air Pollution and Its Impacts |
title_full | Rethinking the Connections between Ecosystem Services, Pollinators, Pollution, and Health: Focus on Air Pollution and Its Impacts |
title_fullStr | Rethinking the Connections between Ecosystem Services, Pollinators, Pollution, and Health: Focus on Air Pollution and Its Impacts |
title_full_unstemmed | Rethinking the Connections between Ecosystem Services, Pollinators, Pollution, and Health: Focus on Air Pollution and Its Impacts |
title_short | Rethinking the Connections between Ecosystem Services, Pollinators, Pollution, and Health: Focus on Air Pollution and Its Impacts |
title_sort | rethinking the connections between ecosystem services, pollinators, pollution, and health: focus on air pollution and its impacts |
topic | Perspective |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8910767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35270689 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052997 |
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