[HTML][HTML] Protected areas and the future of insect conservation

S Chowdhury, MD Jennions, MP Zalucki… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Anthropogenic pressures are driving insect declines across the world. Although protected
areas (PAs) play a prominent role in safeguarding many vertebrate species from human …

Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities

M Besson, J Alison, K Bjerge, TE Gorochowski… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
High‐resolution monitoring is fundamental to understand ecosystems dynamics in an era of
global change and biodiversity declines. While real‐time and automated monitoring of …

Insect declines in the Anthropocene

N Blüthgen, LV Dicks, ML Forister… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Reports of stark declines in invertebrate biomass prompted attention-grabbing news
headlines about an 'insect apocalypse', fuelling public and scientific interest in the insect …

[HTML][HTML] Three-quarters of insect species are insufficiently represented by protected areas

S Chowdhury, MP Zalucki, JO Hanson, S Tiatragul… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Insects dominate the biosphere, yet insect populations are plummeting worldwide. Massive
conservation efforts will be needed to reverse these declines. Protected areas (PAs) could …

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 …

Novel community data in ecology-properties and prospects

F Hartig, N Abrego, A Bush, JM Chase… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
New technologies for monitoring biodiversity such as environmental (e) DNA, passive
acoustic monitoring, and optical sensors promise to generate automated spatiotemporal …

Towards a toolkit for global insect biodiversity monitoring

R Van Klink, JK Sheard, TT Høye… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth, yet our knowledge of their diversity,
ecology and population trends remains abysmally poor. Four major technological …

[HTML][HTML] The use and prospects of nonlethal methods in entomology

GL Lövei, M Ferrante - Annual Review of Entomology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Arthropods are declining globally, and entomologists ought to be in the forefront of
protecting them. However, entomological study methods are typically lethal, and we argue …

[HTML][HTML] Accurate detection and identification of insects from camera trap images with deep learning

K Bjerge, J Alison, M Dyrmann… - PLOS Sustainability …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Reported insect declines have dramatically increased the global demand for standardized
insect monitoring data. Image-based monitoring can generate such data cost-efficiently and …

[HTML][HTML] Protected areas support more species than unprotected areas in Great Britain, but lose them equally rapidly

R Cooke, F Mancini, RJ Boyd, KL Evans, A Shaw… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Protected areas are a key conservation tool, yet their effectiveness at maintaining
biodiversity through time is rarely quantified. Here, we assess protected area effectiveness …