Insect declines in the Anthropocene

DL Wagner - Annual review of entomology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Insect declines are being reported worldwide for flying, ground, and aquatic lineages. Most
reports come from western and northern Europe, where the insect fauna is well-studied and …

Future of DNA-based insect monitoring

PYS Chua, SJ Bourlat, C Ferguson, P Korlevic, L Zhao… - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Insects are crucial for ecosystem health but climate change and pesticide use are driving
massive insect decline. To mitigate this loss, we need new and effective monitoring …

Agriculture and climate change are reshaping insect biodiversity worldwide

CL Outhwaite, P McCann, T Newbold - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Several previous studies have investigated changes in insect biodiversity, with some
highlighting declines and others showing turnover in species composition without net …

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

CA Hallmann, M Sorg, E Jongejans, H Siepel… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Global declines in insects have sparked wide interest among scientists, politicians, and the
general public. Loss of insect diversity and abundance is expected to provoke cascading …

Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation

RJ Wilson, R Fox - Ecological Entomology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
1. Insects have emerged as causes célèbres for widespread concern about human effects
on global biodiversity. Here, we consider how insects provide opportunities both to …

The effect of insect food availability on songbird reproductive success and chick body condition: Evidence from a systematic review and meta‐analysis

EM Grames, GA Montgomery, C Youngflesh… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reports of declines in abundance and biomass of insects and other invertebrates from
around the world have raised concerns about food limitation that could have profound …

Trait‐based ecology of terrestrial arthropods

MKL Wong, B Guénard, OT Lewis - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In focusing on how organisms' generalizable functional properties (traits) interact
mechanistically with environments across spatial scales and levels of biological …

Moving on from the insect apocalypse narrative: engaging with evidence-based insect conservation

ME Saunders, JK Janes, JC O'Hanlon - BioScience, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Recent studies showing temporal changes in local and regional insect populations received
exaggerated global media coverage. Confusing and inaccurate science communication on …

Classifying the unknown: Insect identification with deep hierarchical Bayesian learning

S Badirli, CJ Picard, G Mohler, F Richert… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Classifying insect species involves a tedious process of identifying distinctive morphological
insect characters by taxonomic experts. Machine learning can harness the power of …

Soil microarthropods and nutrient cycling

G Lakshmi, BN Okafor, D Visconti - Environment, climate, plant and …, 2020 - Springer
Soil microarthropods are soil macrofauna which help in assisting soil quality, increasing soil
carbon and has a major role in soil biogeochemical cycles. Even though the importance of …