Host specificity and species colouration mediate the regional decline of nocturnal moths in central European forests

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

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Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions

(2020) Pedro Cardoso et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects

(2020) Michael J. Samways et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Variable colour patterns indicate multidimensional, intraspecific trait variation and ecological generalization in moths

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Long‐term monitoring reveals decreasing water beetle diversity, loss of specialists and community shifts over the past 28 years

(2020) Nicolas Roth et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward

(2020) Raphael K. Didham et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Spatial Sampling Grain Shapes Conclusions about Community Structure and Dynamics

(2020) Claire E. Wainwright et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

(2020) Jeffrey A. Harvey et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US Long Term Ecological Research sites

(2020) Michael S. Crossley et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Beta diversity patterns reveal positive effects of farmland abandonment on moth communities

(2019) Murilo Dantas de Miranda et al.   Scientific Reports

“Insectageddon”: A call for more robust data and rigorous analyses

(2019) Chris D. Thomas et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mitigating the precipitous decline of terrestrial European insects: Requirements for a new strategy

(2019) Jan Christian Habel et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Ecological traits predict population changes in moths

(2019) Emma Coulthard et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers

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Multi-decadal surveys in a Mediterranean forest reserve – do succession and isolation drive moth species richness?

(2019) Mirko Wölfling et al.   Nature Conservation-Bulgaria

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Succession matters: Community shifts in moths over three decades increases multifunctionality in intermediate successional stages

(2019) Jan Christian Habel et al.   Scientific Reports

Declining abundance of beetles, moths and caddisflies in the Netherlands

(2019) Caspar A. Hallmann et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Balancing sampling intensity against spatial coverage for a community science monitoring programme

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Robust evidence of declines in insect abundance and biodiversity

(2019) William E. Kunin   NATURE

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

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Artificial intelligence reveals environmental constraints on colour diversity in insects

(2019) Shipher Wu et al.   Nature Communications

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

Moth biomass increases and decreases over 50 years in Britain

(2019) Callum J. Macgregor et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Declines in moth populations stress the need for conserving dark nights

(2018) Frank van Langevelde et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The dark side of Lepidoptera: Colour lightness of geometrid moths decreases with increasing latitude

(2018) Lea Heidrich et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Life-history traits of Central European moths: gradients of variation and their association with rarity and threats

(2018) Pavel Potocký et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Biodiversity along temperate forest succession

(2018) Torben Hilmers et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Colors of night: climate–morphology relationships of geometrid moths along spatial gradients in southwestern China

(2018) Shuang Xing et al.   OECOLOGIA

Minimum Time Required to Detect Population Trends: The Need for Long-Term Monitoring Programs

(2018) Easton R White   BIOSCIENCE

The impact of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on regional biodiversity of multiple taxa in European beech forests

(2017) Peter Schall et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Variation in growth and developmental responses to supraoptimal temperatures near latitudinal range limits of gypsy moth Lymantria dispar (L.), an expanding invasive species

(2017) Lily M. Thompson et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

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

The challenges of predicting pesticide exposure of honey bees at landscape level

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(2016) Jan Christian Habel et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Colour lightness of dragonfly assemblages across North America and Europe

(2016) Stefan Pinkert et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Climate change amplifies the interactions between wind and bark beetle disturbances in forest landscapes

(2016) Rupert Seidl et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Cool habitats support darker and bigger butterflies in Australian tropical forests

(2016) Shuang Xing et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Reshaping agri-environmental subsidies: From marginal farming to large-scale rewilding

(2015) Thomas Merckx et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Air pollution and its effects on lichens, bryophytes, and lichen-feeding Lepidoptera: review and evidence from biological records

(2015) Oliver L. Pescott et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Guild-specific responses of forest Lepidoptera highlight conservation-oriented forest management – Implications from conifer-dominated forests

(2015) Simon Thorn et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Trends of extinction risk for Lepidoptera in Finland: the first national Red List Index of butterflies and moths

(2015) Aino Juslén et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Resource specialists lead local insect community turnover associated with temperature - analysis of an 18-year full-seasonal record of moths and beetles

(2015) Philip Francis Thomsen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Bark Beetles Increase Biodiversity While Maintaining Drinking Water Quality

(2015) Burkhard Beudert et al.   Conservation Letters

Current temporal trends in moth abundance are counter to predicted effects of climate change in an assemblage of subarctic forest moths

(2014) Mark D. Hunter et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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(2014) Alexandre Roulin   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Long-term changes to the frequency of occurrence of British moths are consistent with opposing and synergistic effects of climate and land-use changes

(2014) Richard Fox et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Towards a mitogenomic phylogeny of Lepidoptera

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Global warming favours light-coloured insects in Europe

(2014) Dirk Zeuss et al.   Nature Communications

Increasing forest disturbances in Europe and their impact on carbon storage

(2014) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

Life-history traits and landscape characteristics predict macro-moth responses to forest fragmentation

(2013) Eleanor M. Slade et al.   ECOLOGY

Forest floor vegetation response to nitrogen deposition in Europe

(2013) Thomas Dirnböck et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Insects Overshoot the Expected Upslope Shift Caused by Climate Warming

(2013) Claus Bässler et al.   PLoS One

Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

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More than a colour change: insect melanism, disease resistance and fecundity

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Forest insects and climate change: long-term trends in herbivore damage

(2013) Maartje J. Klapwijk et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Conserving threatened Lepidoptera: Towards an effective woodland management policy in landscapes under intense human land-use

(2012) Thomas Merckx et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Long-term decline in the abundance of leafhoppers and planthoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) in Central European protected dry grasslands

(2012) Sebastian Schuch et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Reconstructed forest age structure in Europe 1950–2010

(2012) T. Vilén et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

(2012) RICHARD FOX   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Large carabid beetle declines in a United Kingdom monitoring network increases evidence for a widespread loss in insect biodiversity

(2012) David R. Brooks et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Hedgerow trees and extended-width field margins enhance macro-moth diversity: implications for management

(2012) Thomas Merckx et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Aggregative response in bats: prey abundance versus habitat

(2012) Jörg Müller et al.   OECOLOGIA

Temperature-Dependent Alterations in Host Use Drive Rapid Range Expansion in a Butterfly

(2012) R. M. Pateman et al.   SCIENCE

Cumulative nitrogen input drives species loss in terrestrial ecosystems

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Long-term population trends in three grassland insect groups: a comparative analysis of 1951 and 2009

(2011) S. Schuch et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Climate change and its effects on terrestrial insects and herbivory patterns

(2011) T Cornelissen   NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Changes in the distribution of carabid beetles in Belgium revisited: Have we halted the diversity loss?

(2010) Konjev Desender et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Learning from a “benign neglect strategy” in a national park: Response of saproxylic beetles to dead wood accumulation

(2010) Jörg Müller et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Determinants of species richness in generalist and specialist Mediterranean butterflies: the negative synergistic forces of climate and habitat change

(2010) Constanti Stefanescu et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Recent trends in butterfly populations from north-east Spain and Andorra in the light of habitat and climate change

(2010) Constantí Stefanescu et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

The state of the Dutch larger moth fauna

(2010) D. Groenendijk et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

(2010) Simon G. Potts et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Long-term changes in the abundance of flying insects

(2009) CHRIS R. SHORTALL et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Taxonomic homogenization of woodland plant communities over 70 years

(2009) S. A. Keith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES