Ecosystem Services Provided by Insects in Brazil: What Do We Really Know?

Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions

(2020) Pedro Cardoso et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Welcome to the Atta world: A framework for understanding the effects of leaf‐cutter ants on ecosystem functions

(2019) Amanda C. Swanson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Dynamics of predatory and herbivorous insects at the farm scale: the role of cropped and noncropped habitats

(2019) Pedro H. B. Togni et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers

(2019) Francisco Sánchez-Bayo et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Predicting a global insect apocalypse

(2019) Pedro Cardoso et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

The maggot therapy supply chain: a review of the literature and practice

(2019) F. Stadler   MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY

Brazil’s budget cuts threaten more than 80,000 science scholarships

(2019) Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade   NATURE

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

Beef or grasshopper hamburgers: The ecological implications of choosing one over the other

(2018) A. Wegier et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Insect effects on ecosystem services—Introduction

(2018) T.D. Schowalter et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Insects as a piece of the puzzle to mitigate global problems: an opportunity for ecologists

(2018) Chelse M. Prather et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Research trends in ecosystem services provided by insects

(2018) Jorge Ari Noriega et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Biodiversity provides whitefly biological control based on farm management

(2018) Pedro H. B. Togni et al.   JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE

Cerrado ecoregions: A spatial framework to assess and prioritize Brazilian savanna environmental diversity for conservation

(2018) Edson E. Sano et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Effects of land-use changes on ecosystem services: decrease in ant predation in human-dominated landscapes in central Brazil

(2017) Renata Pacheco et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Biodiversity consequences of land-use change and forest disturbance in the Amazon: A multi-scale assessment using ant communities

(2016) Ricardo Ribeiro de Castro Solar et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The strong influence of collection bias on biodiversity knowledge shortfalls of Brazilian terrestrial biodiversity

(2016) Ubirajara Oliveira et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

(2016) Marco Moretti et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Dung beetles reduce livestock gastrointestinal parasite availability on pasture

(2016) Bryony Sands et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

(2016) Jos Barlow et al.   NATURE

Mutually beneficial pollinator diversity and crop yield outcomes in small and large farms

(2016) L. A. Garibaldi et al.   SCIENCE

Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

(2015) Joaquín Hortal et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The Dependence of Crops for Pollinators and the Economic Value of Pollination in Brazil

(2015) T. C. Giannini et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Changes in the global value of ecosystem services

(2014) Robert Costanza et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

A crop model-based approach for sunflower yields

(2014) João Guilherme Dal Belo Leite et al.   SCIENTIA AGRICOLA

Contrasting effects of insect exclusion on wood loss in a temperate forest

(2014) Michael D. Ulyshen et al.   Ecosphere

Crop losses and the economic impact of insect pests on Brazilian agriculture

(2013) C.M. Oliveira et al.   CROP PROTECTION

Herbivory makes major contributions to ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycling in tropical forests

(2013) Daniel B. Metcalfe et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Insect Herbivore Effects on Forest Ecosystem Services

(2012) T. D. Schowalter   Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Seeds in farmland food-webs: Resource importance, distribution and the impacts of farm management

(2011) Darren M. Evans et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Influence of termites on ecosystem functioning. Ecosystem services provided by termites

(2011) Pascal Jouquet et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Effect of dung burial by the dung beetle Bubas bison on numbers and viability of Cryptosporidium oocysts in cattle dung

(2011) Una Ryan et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies

(2010) A. G. Power   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Arthropods as bioindicators of sustainable forest management, with a focus on plantation forests

(2009) M. Abdul Maleque et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Knowledge of insect diversity in Brazil: challenges and advances

(2009) José A Rafael et al.   NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles

(2008) E. Nichols et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Children's Perceptions of Rainforest Biodiversity: Which Animals Have the Lion's Share of Environmental Awareness?

(2008) Jake L. Snaddon et al.   PLoS One

The utilization and industrialization of insect resources in China

(2008) Chuan-Xi ZHANG et al.   ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH