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This story was originally published b<\/em>yYale e360\u00a0and is reproduced here as part of the\u00a0<\/em>Climate Desk\u00a0collaboration<\/em>.<\/p>

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Across the globe<\/span>, human activities are changing the way our planet smells. In Egypt, increasing temperatures are shrinking yields of aromatic jasmine flowers; in France, extreme drought has reduced the production of fragrant, night-blooming tuberose, a major ingredient in many perfumes; in Italy, climatic extremes are altering the characteristic floral, citrusy scent of bergamot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But anthropogenic factors are also reshaping environmental smellscapes, a word coined in the 1980s to describe the totality of scents in a given geographic area, in ways that are far more subtle\u2014and potentially much more harmful.<\/p>\n

While humans largely rely on sight and sound in our interactions with each other and with the world around us, many other creatures rely on smells.\u00a0Ants, for example, require scents for colony cohesion;\u00a0turkey vultures\u00a0let scent guide them to far-away carrion; and\u00a0male moths\u00a0use scent to find females hundreds of meters away. \u201cScent is very important because it mediates so many interactions within an ecosystem,\u201d says James Blande, a chemical ecologist at the University of Eastern Finland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These scent-based interactions are crucial for the maintenance of ecosystem services that directly benefit humans, from the\u00a0bees\u00a0and\u00a0moths\u00a0that pollinate crops to the\u00a0flies\u00a0and\u00a0dung beetles\u00a0that recycle the nutrients from dead and decomposing matter. Intact channels of scent communication are likely also important for the preservation of biodiversity. For example, many\u00a0rare orchid\u00a0species use scent to attract the co-evolved pollinators they need in order to reproduce, and scent helps guide\u00a0monarch butterflies\u00a0to the single type of plant on which they lay their eggs.<\/p>\n

But just as we are discovering how important these chemical communication channels are to the fabric of the natural world\u2014and the many benefits we reap from it\u2014we are also learning how drastically they can be disrupted by our activities, including climate change and air pollution.<\/p>\n

Now, scientists are working to document human-induced changes in smellscapes across the planet\u2014to understand how these changes affect communication between different organisms, and to try to figure out which systems are capable of adaptation and which may be at risk of failure.<\/p>\n

Historically, <\/span>researchers in the field of sensory pollution have been largely focused on noise and light, says Jeff Riffell, a sensory biologist at the University of Washington. Odor pollution, on the other hand, \u201cis really hard to get a handle on because you need these big chemical analysis devices that [cost] hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to characterize it.\u201d Plus, he says, \u201cwe\u2019re just not very olfactory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite these challenges, a growing number of scientists are documenting how humans are changing the chemical signals of plants and animals. For example, researchers have discovered that air pollution degrades many of the volatile organic compounds that make up\u00a0lavender\u2019s\u00a0characteristic scent, and increasing temperatures dramatically decrease the floral perfumes released by\u00a0strawberry plants\u00a0and\u00a0wild white petunias.\u00a0Agricultural chemicals, like fertilizers and fungicides, add additional VOCs to the air in fields and orchards around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But figuring out how these changes affect communication between organisms\u2014 and whether this impairs their ability to pollinate, procreate, or otherwise survive\u2014can be a tricky task, as objective\u00a0differences in the chemical makeup of a scent don\u2019t always predict differences in how they are perceived.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To get inside the mind of a pollinator and parse how much a smell has to change before it becomes unrecognizable, researchers often use a simple test called the proboscis extension response\u2014a sort of Pavlov\u2019s dog for bees. While Pavlov taught dogs to associate food with the sound of a bell, triggering them to drool, researchers teach bees to associate particular scents with the taste of sugar. Once they learn the association, the bees stick out their proboscis\u2014the insect equivalent of a tongue.<\/p>\n

Using this paradigm, Stony Brook University pollination biologist Jordanna Sprayberry and her colleagues taught bumblebees to recognize a particular floral odor, then\u00a0tested\u00a0how three different fungicides affected the bees\u2019 ability to recognize this odor. \u201cWe found negative effects of every fungicide we tested,\u201d she says. One fungicide was disruptive at every concentration tested. This could be especially problematic for fruit and vegetable production, since these crops generally require insect pollination and are often\u00a0heavily treated\u00a0with fungicides.<\/p>\n

A team of researchers in the United Kingdom has also used this type of test to investigate the impact of oxidizing air pollutants\u2014like ozone and nitrate radicals (NO3)\u2014on honeybees\u2019 ability to recognize scents. These pollutants are naturally present in the air at low levels but are\u00a0dramatically increased\u00a0by emissions from cars, power plants, and oil and gas production. Instead of just adding new odor molecules on top of an existing scent, oxidizing pollutants react with different components of floral perfumes, degrading their scents.<\/p>\n

After researchers taught honeybees to recognize a\u00a0floral odor blend, they released that scent into a wind tunnel of ozone-polluted air. At six meters from the source, only about 30 percent of bees could still recognize the scent. This kind of pollution could seriously impair honeybees\u2019 ability to find flowers, which is concerning because honeybees are estimated to be responsible for about\u00a0half\u00a0of crop pollination worldwide.<\/p>\n

While daytime pollinators<\/span> get the most attention, nocturnal pollinators are also important for crops and wild plant species. To find out if night-time pollination was similarly affected by pollutants, Riffell turned his attention to a fragrant, night-blooming wildflower called the\u00a0pale evening primrose\u00a0and its hawkmoth pollinators.<\/p>\n

He and his team measured how compounds in the primrose scent changed when exposed to NO3, which increases at night. While some types of odor compounds were relatively resistant to these pollutants, others, like \u03b2-Pinene, a woodsy-green scent, and \u03b2-Ocimene, which is more floral and herbaceous, began to degrade within seconds.<\/p>

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Next, researchers set up scent traps at their field site in eastern Washington. Over the course of the night, they recorded how often pollinators visited a real flower, a paper cone releasing a simulated floral scent, and a cone releasing floral scent degraded by NO3 exposure. Pollinators stopped by the real flower and the floral-scented cone at similar rates, but the degraded scent received about 70 percent fewer visits. That\u2019s bad news for both players: As natural scents degrade, pollinators may have less access to food while plants may have a lower chance of reproducing.<\/p>\n

Using a model of atmospheric conditions that included pollution levels and weather conditions and combining it with data on how quickly oxidizing pollutants can degrade key floral odors, Riffell and his colleagues mapped distances at which a moth would be able to detect a primrose in different locations on Earth. In more heavily polluted regions of the world, the team found, the distance from which a moth can sense a flower has fallen to just a\u00a0quarter\u00a0of what it was during preindustrial times. Similar modeling strategies could be used to identify croplands and valuable ecosystems at greatest risk for communication breakdown and the loss of crucial pollination services.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Much of the work on the ecology of shifting smells has focused on pollination\u2014and with good reason. \u201cWhen you go to the grocery store in, say, Canada or the United States, almost 70 percent of the food is actually a result of pollination,\u201d says Riffell. The\u00a0vast majority\u00a0of wild flowering plants also depend on pollination by insects and other animals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But plant-pollinator interaction is just a tiny part of how scents structure our world. How human activities affect other types of chemical messages is largely unexplored, but the few existing studies suggest concerning disruptions. Markus Knaden, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, is exploring how ozone alters chemical communication between insects. \u201cThe problem is that [scent] molecules are very sensitive to oxidants,\u201d he says. \u201cWhich was not a problem for the last millions of years but is becoming an increasing problem due to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knaden\u2019s studies revealed that ozone pollution breaks down pheromones, with serious consequences for insects looking to mate. For example, ozone-altered pheromones made male flies less appealing to females of their species and increased\u00a0male-male courtship\u00a0behaviors. The mating process leaves insects vulnerable to predation, Knaden says, so if a male wastes time courting other males, he might get eaten before he can reproduce.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pheromone breakdown can mess with mating in other ways, too: When Knaden\u2019s team exposed flies to ozone-enriched air, females were much more likely to mate with males of a different species, producing hybrid offspring that were often infertile.<\/p>\n

Insect populations are already in decline globally, a phenomenon known to be driven by habitat loss and the widespread use of pesticides, but Knaden says it\u2019s possible that oxidizing pollutants could accelerate this decline. \u201cIf you take down the population by 30 percent or 50 percent, it is already harder for [insects] to locate each other,\u201d he says. \u201cBut if you then take down their communications channel by oxidizing their pheromones, that might be an additional effect.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

What does a future<\/span> of altered smellscapes look like for organisms that rely on scent to communicate?<\/p>\n

\u201cDepending on the relationship, some of the plants and animals can handle these changes,\u201d says Shannon Olsson, who runs the Naturalist-Inspired Chemical Ecology lab at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, in India. \u201cWe have seen robustness in the system, but we\u2019ve also seen failures in the system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some insects are quick learners:\u00a0Bumblebees\u00a0and\u00a0honeybees\u00a0can learn attraction to new scents after just a handful of training runs. And while pollinating hoverflies seem to be innately attracted to certain floral scents and colors, Olsson\u2019s research shows that they can also learn to\u00a0avoid them, demonstrating that some insects are highly adaptable to changes in the environment.<\/p>\n

But some insects may not live long enough for meaningful learning to occur. Researchers found that ozone pollution can change the scent of a Mediterranean fig enough that it is no longer attractive to its only pollinator, the\u00a0fig wasp. In the wild, the wasp lives only about\u00a0two days\u2014likely not enough time to learn an odor that\u2019s different from the tree that it evolved with over\u00a0millions of years.<\/p>\n

Learning may not help buffer insects against pollution-altered sexual signals, either. \u201cPeople that work on insect mating and on insect pheromones,\u201d Knudsen says, \u201cusually think that this is a really hard-wired system.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The good news, says Riffell, is that air quality regulations implemented in recent decades have had a substantial impact on reducing oxidizing air pollutants. In the\u00a0US, levels of ozone and nitrogen oxides\u2014which are also harmful to human health\u2014have been falling slowly but steadily since 1980. Even so, many places in the US and Europe still regularly experience unhealthy levels of these pollutants, and ozone exposure is estimated to be\u00a0increasing globally.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am hopeful that things are getting better,\u201d says Riffell. \u201cBut I am very mindful that things can change really dramatically and very quickly. We\u2019ve all experienced this\u2014especially in the US, in the last year or two.\u201d To prevent these anthropogenic pollutants from further affecting animal communication systems, he adds, \u201cwe need enhanced regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n

For agricultural chemicals, like fungicides, Sprayberry says more research is needed to determine when and how much to use them to minimize the loss of crops to disease while also producing the smallest amount of bee-disturbing olfactory pollution. Ultimately, says Olsson, \u201cWe have to learn how to coexist in a way that\u2019s minimally destructive to our plants and animals.\u201d<\/p>

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