Severe decline in terrestrial insect species richness, abundance, flying biomass, and local
extinctions across Europe are cause for alarm. Here, we summarize this decline, and identify …

Abstract Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) allow observation and reporting of global
biodiversity change, but a detailed framework for the empirical derivation of specific EBVs …

Uncertainty remains regarding the role of anthropogenic climate change in declining insect
populations, partly because our understanding of biotic response to climate is often …

In focusing on how organisms' generalizable functional properties (traits) interact
mechanistically with environments across spatial scales and levels of biological …

Humans have elevated global extinction rates and thus lowered global scale species
richness. However, there is no a priori reason to expect that losses of global species …

While biodiversity loss continues globally, assessments of regional and local change over
time have been equivocal. Here, we assess changes in plant species richness and beta …

Aim To understand how the integration of contextual spatial data on land cover and human
infrastructure can help reduce spatial bias in sampling effort, and improve the utilization of …

Regular reassessment of extinction risk is critical to prioritise conservation action during the
current period of rapid, anthropogenic biodiversity change. Butterflies are a flagship group …

Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages
sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as …

Aim To assess the effectiveness of protected areas in preventing biodiversity decline. We
first test whether species richness of butterfly assemblages is higher within European Natura …