Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

JA Harvey, K Tougeron, R Gols, R Heinen… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming is considered to be among the most serious of anthropogenic stresses to
the environment, because it not only has direct effects on biodiversity, but it also exacerbates …

Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances

R Van Klink, DE Bowler, KB Gongalsky, AB Swengel… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Recent case studies showing substantial declines of insect abundances have raised alarm,
but how widespread such patterns are remains unclear. We compiled data from 166 long …

Ecosystem birth near melting glaciers: a review on the pioneer role of ground-dwelling arthropods

S Hågvar, M Gobbi, R Kaufmann, M Ingimarsdóttir… - Insects, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Due to climate change, glaciers are retreating. On newly deglaciated
ground, ecosystems gradually evolve through the process of primary succession. This gives …

Disproportionate declines of formerly abundant species underlie insect loss

R van Klink, DE Bowler, KB Gongalsky, M Shen… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Studies have reported widespread declines in terrestrial insect abundances in recent years,,–
, but trends in other biodiversity metrics are less clear-cut,–. Here we examined long-term …

Effects of climate change on phenologies and distributions of bumble bees and the plants they visit

GH Pyke, JD Thomson, DW Inouye, TJ Miller - Ecosphere, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Surveys of bumble bees and the plants they visit, carried out in 1974 near the Rocky
Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado, were repeated in 2007, thus permitting the …

Climate warming effects in the tropical Andes: first evidence for upslope shifts of Carabidae (Coleoptera) in Ecuador

P Moret, MÁ Aráuz, M Gobbi… - Insect Conservation and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In order to assess the impact of global warming on the biodiversity of the tropical high
Andean páramo ecosystem, we compared historical and recent surveys of ground beetle …

Potential warm-stage microrefugia for alpine plants: Feedback between geomorphological and biological processes

R Gentili, C Baroni, M Caccianiga, S Armiraglio… - Ecological …, 2015 - Elsevier
During interglacial stages, microrefugia are sites that support locally favorable climates
within larger areas with unfavorable warmer climates. Despite recent theoretical …

Global warning: challenges, threats and opportunities for ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in high altitude habitats

M Gobbi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2011.06804, 2020 - arxiv.org
Aim of this paper is to provide the first comprehensive synthesis about ground beetle
(Coleoptera: Carabidae) distribution in high altitude habitats. Specifically, the attention is …

Climate change and its impact on epigean and hypogean carabid beetles

P Brandmayr, R Pizzolotto - Periodicum biologorum, 2016 - hrcak.srce.hr
Background and purpose: The approaches to the impact of climate change on carabid
beetles are highly differentiated. We review here most studies that tried to compare past …

[PDF][PDF] InsectChange: a global database of temporal changes in insect and arachnid assemblages

R van Klink, DE Bowler, O Comay, MM Driessen… - Ecology, 2021 - par.nsf.gov
Insects are the most ubiquitous and diverse group of eukaryotic organisms on Earth, forming
a crucial link in terrestrial and freshwater food webs, but have recently made headlines …