Emerging technologies revolutionise insect ecology and monitoring

R Van Klink, T August, Y Bas, P Bodesheim… - Trends in ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth, but their small size and high diversity
have always made them challenging to study. Recent technological advances have the …

Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research

G Sigmund, M Ågerstrand, A Antonelli… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and chemical pollution are planetary‐scale emergencies
requiring urgent mitigation actions. As these “triple crises” are deeply interlinked, they need …

Deep learning and computer vision will transform entomology

TT Høye, J Ärje, K Bjerge… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Most animal species on Earth are insects, and recent reports suggest that their abundance is
in drastic decline. Although these reports come from a wide range of insect taxa and regions …

Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward

RK Didham, Y Basset, CM Collins… - Insect Conservation …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many insect species are under threat from the anthropogenic drivers of global change.
There have been numerous well‐documented examples of insect population declines and …

Standards and best practices for monitoring and benchmarking insects

GA Montgomery, MW Belitz, RP Guralnick… - Frontiers in ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Benchmark studies of insect populations are increasingly relevant and needed amid
accelerating concern about insect trends in the Anthropocene. The growing recognition that …

Long-term insect censuses capture progressive loss of ecosystem functioning in East Asia

Y Zhou, H Zhang, D Liu, A Khashaveh, Q Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Insects provide critical ecosystem services such as biological pest control, in which natural
enemies (NE) regulate the populations of crop-feeding herbivores (H). While H-NE …

The effects of light pollution on migratory animal behavior

CS Burt, JF Kelly, GE Trankina, CL Silva… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Light pollution is a global threat to biodiversity, especially migratory organisms, some of
which traverse hemispheric scales. Research on light pollution has grown significantly over …

Insect biomass decline scaled to species diversity: General patterns derived from a hoverfly community

CA Hallmann, A Ssymank, M Sorg… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Reports of declines in biomass of flying insects have alarmed the world in recent years.
However, how biomass declines reflect biodiversity loss is still an open question. Here, we …

Density declines, richness increases, and composition shifts in stream macroinvertebrates

SL Rumschlag, MB Mahon, DK Jones, W Battaglin… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Documenting trends of stream macroinvertebrate biodiversity is challenging because
biomonitoring often has limited spatial, temporal, and taxonomic scopes. We analyzed …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a multisensor station for automated biodiversity monitoring

JW Wägele, P Bodesheim, SJ Bourlat, J Denzler… - Basic and Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid changes of the biosphere observed in recent years are caused by both small and
large scale drivers, like shifts in temperature, transformations in land-use, or changes in the …