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Agricultural intensification and climate change are rapidly decreasing insect biodiversity

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Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West

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Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward

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Declines in an abundant aquatic insect, the burrowing mayfly, across major North American waterways

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Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects

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Nutrient dilution and climate cycles underlie declines in a dominant insect herbivore

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Toward a standardized quantitative and qualitative insect monitoring scheme

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Drought stress alters floral volatiles and reduces floral rewards, pollinator activity, and seed set in a global plant

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The data of the Swedish Malaise Trap Project, a countrywide inventory of Sweden's insect fauna

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The effects of rainfall on plant–pollinator interactions

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

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Perspective: Where might be many tropical insects?

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Trends and indicators for quantifying moth abundance and occupancy in Scotland

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Climate change‐driven body size shrinking in a social wasp

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

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Species Energy and Thermal Performance Theory predict 20‐year changes in ant community abundance and richness

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Declining abundance of beetles, moths and caddisflies in the Netherlands

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Insect Declines in the Anthropocene

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Light pollution is a driver of insect declines

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Soil eutrophication shaped the composition of pollinator assemblages during the past century

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Urbanization drives cross‐taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales

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

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Frequency of extreme precipitation increases extensively with event rareness under global warming

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Moth biomass increases and decreases over 50 years in Britain

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Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

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Drought reduces floral resources for pollinators

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Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

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

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The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring: Linking essential biodiversity variables and ecosystem integrity

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Rapid rise in toxic load for bees revealed by analysis of pesticide use in Great Britain

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Agriculture sows pests: how crop domestication, host shifts, and agricultural intensification can create insect pests from herbivores

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TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015

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WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

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Validation of floral food resources for pollinators in agricultural landscape in SE Poland

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Carried over: Heat stress in the egg stage reduces subsequent performance in a butterfly

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

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Spring warming increases the abundance of an invasive specialist insect: links to phenology and life history

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Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures?

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Drought and leaf herbivory influence floral volatiles and pollinator attraction

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Species richness and biomass explain spatial turnover in ecosystem functioning across tropical and temperate ecosystems

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Introduction to the sampling designs of the National Ecological Observatory Network Terrestrial Observation System

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Large-scale semi-automated acoustic monitoring allows to detect temporal decline of bush-crickets

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Microhabitat and body size effects on heat tolerance: implications for responses to climate change (army ants: Formicidae, Ecitoninae)

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High diversity stabilizes the thermal resilience of pollinator communities in intensively managed grasslands

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Association of extinction risk of saproxylic beetles with ecological degradation of forests in Europe

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Unexpected phenological responses of butterflies to the interaction of urbanization and geographic temperature

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Threats to an ecosystem service: pressures on pollinators

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Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset

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The effect of ambient humidity on the foraging behavior of the hawkmoth Manduca sexta

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Weather Forecasting by Insects: Modified Sexual Behaviour in Response to Atmospheric Pressure Changes

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Space can substitute for time in predicting climate-change effects on biodiversity

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Native Pollinators in Anthropogenic Habitats

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Landscape structure influences pollinator movements and directly affects plant reproductive success

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A statistical view of synthesizing patterns of species richness along productivity gradients: devils, forests, and trees

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Predicting richness effects on ecosystem function in natural communities: insights from high-elevation streams

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Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

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Long-term changes in the abundance of flying insects

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Global warming benefits the small in aquatic ecosystems

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Getting the Public Involved in Butterfly Conservation: Lessons Learned from a New Monitoring Scheme in Germany

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