Journal
BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue -, Pages 71-81Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2017.09.009
Keywords
Ecosystem services; Global change; Biofuels; Entomophagy; Ecotourism; Climate change
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Funding
- United States of America National Science Foundation Grant [1457114]
- United States Department of Agriculture Grant [2015-07320]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1457114, 1565406] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Although scientists have studied and touted the importance of insects to many ecosystem services for decades, insects and insect science are often poorly perceived by the public and by policy makers. Because insects do have important influences on many ecosystem services, they have even greater potential to be used to solve some anthropogenically-caused current global problems. We give several examples where insects are currently being used, or are being considered for future use, as a part of the solution to a global problem, including their potential roles as a part of the solution to sustainable fuel and food systems, deforestation and other environmental degradation, and global inequities. Ecologists have an important role to play in assessing how many of the proposed uses of insects will alter ecological processes and ecosystem services, or how their use may be effectively implemented. (C) 2017 Gesellschaft fur Okologie. Published by Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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