An overview of the environmental risks posed by neonicotinoid insecticides

D Goulson - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Neonicotinoids are now the most widely used insecticides in the world. They act
systemically, travelling through plant tissues and protecting all parts of the crop, and are …

Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers

F Sánchez-Bayo, KAG Wyckhuys - Biological conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
Biodiversity of insects is threatened worldwide. Here, we present a comprehensive review of
73 historical reports of insect declines from across the globe, and systematically assess the …

Complex long-term biodiversity change among invertebrates, bryophytes and lichens

CL Outhwaite, RD Gregory, RE Chandler… - Nature ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Large-scale biodiversity changes are measured mainly through the responses of a few
taxonomic groups. Much less is known about the trends affecting most invertebrates and …

Butterfly abundance declines over 20 years of systematic monitoring in Ohio, USA

T Wepprich, JR Adrion, L Ries, J Wiedmann… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Severe insect declines make headlines, but they are rarely based on systematic monitoring
outside of Europe. We estimate the rate of change in total butterfly abundance and the …

Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW‐European pollinators and plants

LG Carvalheiro, WE Kunin, P Keil… - Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Concern about biodiversity loss has led to increased public investment in conservation.
Whereas there is a widespread perception that such initiatives have been unsuccessful …

Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome assembly in three vertebrate species

KR Bradnam, JN Fass, A Alexandrov, P Baranay… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background The process of generating raw genome sequence data continues to become
cheaper, faster, and more accurate. However, assembly of such data into high-quality …

A revised Red List of British butterflies

R Fox, EB Dennis, AF Brown… - Insect Conservation and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Regular reassessment of extinction risk is critical to prioritise conservation action during the
current period of rapid, anthropogenic biodiversity change. Butterflies are a flagship group …

The decline of moths in Great Britain: a review of possible causes

R Fox - Insect conservation and diversity, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
1. Population declines among insects are inadequately quantified, yet of vital importance to
national and global biodiversity assessments and have significant implications for …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding citizen science & environmental monitoring. Final report on behalf of UK-EOF. NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Natural History …

HE Roy, MJO Pocock, CD Preston, DB Roy… - … Museum, London, UK …, 2012 - ukeof.org.uk
Citizen science, broadly defined as the involvement of volunteers in research (Dickinson,
Zuckerberg & Bonter, 2010), has a long history (Silvertown, 2009). In the UK the fields of …

Ultra-deep sequencing enables high-fidelity recovery of biodiversity for bulk arthropod samples without PCR amplification

X Zhou, Y Li, S Liu, Q Yang, XU Su, L Zhou… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background Next-generation-sequencing (NGS) technologies combined with a classic DNA
barcoding approach have enabled fast and credible measurement for biodiversity of mixed …