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

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

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International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

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Asymmetric paralog evolution between the “cryptic” gene Bmp16 and its well-studied sister genes Bmp2 and Bmp4

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Long‐term declines of European insectivorous bird populations and potential causes

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Parallel declines in abundance of insects and insectivorous birds in Denmark over 22 years

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

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Declining abundance of beetles, moths and caddisflies in the Netherlands

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

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Moth biomass increases and decreases over 50 years in Britain

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Vanishing of the common species: Empty habitats and the role of genetic diversity

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

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Butterfly community shifts over two centuries

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Rare species contribute disproportionately to the functional structure of species assemblages

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Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real-world ecosystem service

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Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

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An improved nonparametric lower bound of species richness via a modified good-turing frequency formula

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

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Declines in insectivorous birds are associated with high neonicotinoid concentrations

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Defaunation in the Anthropocene

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Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies

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The importance of rare species: a trait-based assessment of rare species contributions to functional diversity and possible ecosystem function in tall-grass prairies

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Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems

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Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

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