Agricultural intensification and climate change are rapidly decreasing insect biodiversity

The decline of butterflies in Europe: Problems, significance, and possible solutions

(2021) Martin S. Warren et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A window to the world of global insect declines: Moth biodiversity trends are complex and heterogeneous

(2021) David L. Wagner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Are insects declining and at what rate? An analysis of standardised, systematic catches of aphid and moth abundances across Great Britain

(2020) James R. Bell et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Loss of dominant caterpillar genera in a protected tropical forest

(2020) Danielle M. Salcido et al.   Scientific Reports

Intensive farming drives long-term shifts in avian community composition

(2020) J. Nicholas Hendershot et al.   NATURE

The Erwin equation of biodiversity: From little steps to quantum leaps in the discovery of tropical insect diversity

(2020) Carlos García‐Robledo et al.   BIOTROPICA

Agriculturally dominated landscapes reduce bee phylogenetic diversity and pollination services

(2019) Heather Grab et al.   SCIENCE

Widespread losses of pollinating insects in Britain

(2019) Gary D. Powney et al.   Nature Communications

Impacts of land use on an insectivorous tropical bat: The importance of mercury, physio-immunology and trophic position

(2019) David Costantini et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Perspective: Where might be many tropical insects?

(2019) Daniel H. Janzen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Defying the Footprint Oracle: Implications of Country Resource Trends

(2019) Mathis Wackernagel et al.   Sustainability

Over a century of data reveal more than 80% decline in butterflies in the Netherlands

(2019) Arco J. van Strien et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Evidence for multiple drivers of aerial insectivore declines in North America

(2019) Kimberly J Spiller et al.   CONDOR

Bats respond negatively to increases in the amount and homogenization of agricultural land cover

(2019) Julia E. Put et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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

(2019) Tyson Wepprich et al.   PLoS One

Global impacts of future cropland expansion and intensification on agricultural markets and biodiversity

(2019) Florian Zabel et al.   Nature Communications

Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes

(2019) Pedro H. S. Brancalion et al.   Science Advances

The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C

(2019) O. Hoegh-Guldberg et al.   SCIENCE

Decline of the North American avifauna

(2019) Kenneth V. Rosenberg et al.   SCIENCE

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

(2019) Lucas Stephens et al.   SCIENCE

Insect Declines in the Anthropocene

(2019) David L. Wagner   Annual Review of Entomology

Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers

(2019) Sebastian Seibold et al.   NATURE

Long-term large-scale decline in relative abundances of butterfly and burnet moth species across south-western Germany

(2019) Jan Christian Habel et al.   Scientific Reports

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

(2019) Matteo Dainese et al.   Science Advances

How Many Species of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods Are There on Earth?

(2018) Nigel E. Stork   Annual Review of Entomology

Have Indo-Malaysian forests reached the end of the road?

(2018) Alice C. Hughes   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The projected effect on insects, vertebrates, and plants of limiting global warming to 1.5°C rather than 2°C

(2018) R. Warren et al.   SCIENCE

The earliest modern humans outside Africa

(2018) Israel Hershkovitz et al.   SCIENCE

New global study reveals the ‘staggering’ loss of forests caused by industrial agriculture

(2018) Erik Stokstad   SCIENCE

Classifying drivers of global forest loss

(2018) Philip G. Curtis et al.   SCIENCE

Landscapes that work for biodiversity and people

(2018) C. Kremen et al.   SCIENCE

Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention

(2017) David Tilman et al.   NATURE

Prairie strips improve biodiversity and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services from corn–soybean croplands

(2017) Lisa A. Schulte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines

(2017) Gerardo Ceballos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Fate of the World’s Plants

(2017) Stuart L. Pimm et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

(2017) Caspar A. Hallmann et al.   PLoS One

Increasing neonicotinoid use and the declining butterfly fauna of lowland California

(2016) Matthew L. Forister et al.   Biology Letters

Butterfly community shifts over two centuries

(2016) Jan Christian Habel et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Counting animal species with DNA barcodes: Canadian insects

(2016) Paul D. N. Hebert et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

More than carbon sequestration: Biophysical climate benefits of restored savanna woodlands

(2016) Jozef I. Syktus et al.   Scientific Reports

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Accelerating extinction risk from climate change

(2015) M. C. Urban   SCIENCE

Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction

(2014) Jurriaan M. De Vos et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

EU agricultural reform fails on biodiversity

(2014) G. Pe'er et al.   SCIENCE

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

Contrasting the ecological and taxonomic consequences of extinction

(2013) Max Christie et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

What we know and don’t know about Earth's missing biodiversity

(2012) Brett R. Scheffers et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A productivity-based explanation for woodland bird declines: poorer soils yield less food

(2011) David M. Watson   EMU

Getting serious about maintaining biodiversity

(2008) James Blignaut et al.   Conservation Letters