Insect declines are being reported worldwide for flying, ground, and aquatic lineages. Most
reports come from western and northern Europe, where the insect fauna is well-studied and …

1. Sown wildflower strips are increasingly being established in European countries within
agri‐environmental schemes to enhance biodiversity, especially in intensively used …

Global declines in insects have sparked wide interest among scientists, politicians, and the
general public. Loss of insect diversity and abundance is expected to provoke cascading …

Animals pollinate 87% of the world's flowering plant species. Therefore, how pollinators
respond to human-induced land-use change has important implications for plants and the …

1. Population declines among insects are inadequately quantified, yet of vital importance to
national and global biodiversity assessments and have significant implications for …

The drastic insect decline has received increasing attention in scientific as well as in public
media. Long‐term studies of insect diversity trends are still rare, even though such studies …

Recent studies indicated severe decline of insect diversity and abundance across major
parts of Central Europe. Theoretical studies showed that the drivers behind biodiversity loss …

Dispersal has recently gained much attention because of its crucial role in the conservation
and evolution of species facing major environmental changes such as habitat loss and …

Grassland insects face some of the most severe declines in species diversity and total
abundance, in part due to agriculture. Livestock grazing is the largest agricultural land use …

The IUCN is the leading authority on assessing species' extinction risks worldwide and
introduced the use of quantitative criteria for the compilation of Red Lists of threatened …