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 …

The effect of insect food availability on songbird reproductive success and chick body condition: Evidence from a systematic review and meta‐analysis

EM Grames, GA Montgomery, C Youngflesh… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reports of declines in abundance and biomass of insects and other invertebrates from
around the world have raised concerns about food limitation that could have profound …

Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts

DL Wagner, EM Grames, ML Forister… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Nature is under siege. In the last 10,000 y the human population has grown from 1 million to
7.8 billion. Much of Earth's arable lands are already in agriculture (1), millions of acres of …

Convergence of dominance and neglect in flying insect diversity

A Srivathsan, Y Ang, JM Heraty, WS Hwang… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Most of arthropod biodiversity is unknown to science. Consequently, it has been unclear
whether insect communities around the world are dominated by the same or different taxa …

Real‐time insect tracking and monitoring with computer vision and deep learning

K Bjerge, HMR Mann, TT Høye - Remote Sensing in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Insects are declining in abundance and diversity, but their population trends remain
uncertain as insects are difficult to monitor. Manual methods require substantial time …

Towards a standardized framework for AI-assisted, image-based monitoring of nocturnal insects

DB Roy, J Alison, TA August… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Automated sensors have potential to standardize and expand the monitoring of insects
across the globe. As one of the most scalable and fastest develo** sensor technologies …

Automating insect monitoring using unsupervised near-infrared sensors

K Rydhmer, E Bick, L Still, A Strand, R Luciano… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Insect monitoring is critical to improve our understanding and ability to preserve and restore
biodiversity, sustainably produce crops, and reduce vectors of human and livestock disease …

[HTML][HTML] Improving wild bee monitoring, sampling methods, and conservation

F Klaus, M Ayasse, A Classen, J Dauber… - Basic and Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
Bees are the most important group of insect pollinators, but their populations are declining.
To gain a better understanding of wild bee responses to different stressors (eg land-use …

From identification to forecasting: the potential of image recognition and artificial intelligence for aphid pest monitoring

P Batz, T Will, S Thiel, TM Ziesche… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Insect monitoring has gained global public attention in recent years in the context of insect
decline and biodiversity loss. Monitoring methods that can collect samples over a long …

A comparison of different Malaise trap types

J Uhler, P Haase, L Hoffmann, T Hothorn… - Insect Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent reports on insect decline have highlighted the need for long‐term data on insect
communities towards identifying their trends and drivers. With the launch of many new insect …