Climate warming is considered to be among the most serious of anthropogenic stresses to
the environment, because it not only has direct effects on biodiversity, but it also exacerbates …

Anthropogenic pressures are driving insect declines across the world. Although protected
areas (PAs) play a prominent role in safeguarding many vertebrate species from human …

Nature is under siege. In the last 10,000 y the human population has grown from 1 million to
7.8 billion. Much of Earth's arable lands are already in agriculture (1), millions of acres of …

Bottom-up effects are major ecological forces in crop–arthropod pest–natural enemy
multitrophic interactions. Over the past two decades, bottom-up effects have been …

Pesticides released to the environment can indirectly affect target and non-target species in
ways that are often contrary to their intended use. Such indirect effects are mediated through …

Moths are the most taxonomically and ecologically diverse insect taxon for which there exist
considerable time-series abundance data. There is an alarming record of decreases in moth …

Wild bee populations are declining due to human activities, such as land use change, which
strongly affect the composition and diversity of available plants and food sources. The …

Insects are declining, but the underlying drivers and differences in responses between
species are still largely unclear. Despite the importance of forests, insect trends therein have …

Despite modern chemistry's success in providing affordable fertilizers for feeding the
population and supporting the ammonia industry, ineffective nitrogen management has led …

Efforts to reduce the environmental burden of agri-food systems have fostered technological
advances to enable a transition towards more sustainable production and diets. Such a …