Metabarcoding advances agricultural invertebrate biomonitoring by enhancing resolution, increasing throughput and facilitating network inference

BSJ Hawthorne, JP Cuff, LE Collins… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Biomonitoring of agriculturally important insects is increasingly vital given our need to
understand:(a) the severity of impacts by pests and pathogens on crop yield and health and …

Legally binding and ambitious biodiversity protection under the CBD, the global biodiversity framework, and human rights law

F Ekardt, P Günther, K Hagemann, B Garske… - Environmental Sciences …, 2023 - Springer
Beyond climate change, the planet faces several other environmental challenges that are at
least as threatening, such as the loss of biodiversity. In each case, the problems are driven …

Negative spill-over effects of agricultural practices on plant species conservation in nature reserves

S Köthe, N Bakanov, CA Brühl, B Gemeinholzer… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nature reserves are one of the most important instruments for biodiversity protection and to
limit regional species extinctions. However, these functions can only be fulfilled if …

Effects of land cover and protected areas on flying insect diversity

JS Sinclair, D Buchner, MO Gessner… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread insect losses are a critical global problem. Mitigating this problem requires
identifying the principal drivers across different taxa and determining which insects are …

Recommendations for effective insect conservation in nature protected areas based on a transdisciplinary project in Germany

S Köthe, N Bakanov, CA Brühl, L Eichler… - Environmental Sciences …, 2023 - Springer
The decline of insect abundance and richness has been documented for decades and has
received increased attention in recent years. In 2017, a study by Hallmann and colleagues …

[HTML][HTML] How much information is there in arthropod data about the landscape around sampling sites? Exploring a theory based on site-specificity of organisms

CJM Musters, GR de Snoo - Ecological Informatics, 2024 - Elsevier
The importance of local versus landscape drivers of biodiversity is presently intensely
discussed, which raises the question what information ecological sampling can provide …

No recovery in the biomass of flying insects over the last decade in German nature protected areas

R Mühlethaler, S Köthe, T Hörren, M Sorg… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Five years after a German study on insect biomass described a multi‐decade decline in
nature protected habitats, the DINA (Diversity of Insects in Nature protected Areas) project …

[PDF][PDF] Pollen metabarcoding of museum specimens and recently collected bumblebees (Bombus) indicates foraging shifts

A Kolter, M Husemann, L Podsiadlowski… - MBMG …, 2023 - mbmg.pensoft.net
Landscape changes, over time, lead to changes of floral resources available to pollinators,
which in turn may result in the disappearance of ecologically specialized species. Here, we …

Considerations for enhancing participation and data accuracy in geospatial research in rural areas: experiences with PGIS in northern Malawi

D Kpienbaareh, I Luginaah… - African Geographical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Rural environments are experiencing rapid changes that must be explored to understand,
enhance, and facilitate positive changes and adapt to detrimental changes. However, the …

Hesitations and aspirations of farmers in nature-protected areas

A Turck, W Terlau - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pursuant to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development of the United Nations, one pivotal target is to halt biodiversity loss. This paper's …