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 …

The global‐scale decline of animal biodiversity ('defaunation') represents one of the most
alarming consequences of human impacts on the planet. The quantification of this extinction …

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 …

Major declines in insect biomass and diversity, reviewed here, have become obvious and
well documented since the end of World War II. Here, we conclude that the spread and …

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 …

Trees are pivotal to global biodiversity and nature's contributions to people, yet accelerating
global changes threaten global tree diversity, making accurate species extinction risk …

Highlights•Insect biodiversity is the highest in the tropics. Yet the responses of tropical
insects to environmental change are understudied.•More data is needed for the tropics to …

We present a new, online, open access portal to the geometrid moths of the world
(Lepidoptera: Geometridae). The portal provides access to the global database including …

Insects are the most biodiverse multicellular organisms, with most of this diversity in the
tropics. Butterflies follow the same pattern, with~ 90% of species from the tropics …

Climate change is a major threat impacting insects globally, yet the impact on tropical
insects is largely unknown. Here, I assessed the climatic vulnerability of Bangladeshi …