We need to talk about nonprobability samples

RJ Boyd, GD Powney, OL Pescott - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
In most circumstances, probability sampling is the only way to ensure unbiased inference
about population quantities where a complete census is not possible. As we enter the era of …

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 …

A synthesis of anthropogenic stress effects on emergence-mediated aquatic-terrestrial linkages and riparian food webs

R Schulz, M Bundschuh, MH Entling… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic stress alters the linkage between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in
various ways. Here, we review the contemporary literature on how alterations in aquatic …

The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects

A Grigoropoulou, SA Hamid, R Acosta… - Global ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation Aquatic insects comprise 64% of freshwater animal diversity and are widely used
as bioindicators to assess water quality impairment and freshwater ecosystem health, as …

Assessing the conservation priority of freshwater lake sites based on taxonomic, functional and environmental uniqueness

J Heino, J García Girón, H Hämäläinen… - Diversity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We propose a novel approach that considers taxonomic uniqueness, functional
uniqueness and environmental uniqueness and show how it can be used in guiding …

Abundance trends for river macroinvertebrates vary across taxa, trophic group and river typology

KE Powell, TH Oliver, T Johns… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
There is mounting evidence that terrestrial arthropods are declining rapidly in many areas of
the world. It is unclear whether freshwater invertebrates, which are key providers of …

ROBITT: A tool for assessing the risk‐of‐bias in studies of temporal trends in ecology

RJ Boyd, GD Powney, F Burns, A Danet… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aggregated species occurrence and abundance data from disparate sources are
increasingly accessible to ecologists for the analysis of temporal trends in biodiversity …

Assessing long‐term effects of artificial light at night on insects: what is missing and how to get there

G Kalinkat, M Grubisic, A Jechow… - Insect Conservation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread and significant declines of insect population abundances and biomass are
currently one of the most pressing issues in entomology, ecology and conservation biology …

Chemical mixtures and multiple stressors: same but different?

RB Schäfer, M Jackson… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystems are strongly influenced by multiple anthropogenic stressors, including a wide
range of chemicals and their mixtures. Studies on the effects of multiple stressors have …

[HTML][HTML] Standardized high-throughput biomonitoring using DNA metabarcoding: Strategies for the adoption of automated liquid handlers

D Buchner, TH Macher, AJ Beermann… - Environmental Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reliable and comprehensive monitoring data are required to trace and counteract
biodiversity loss. High-throughput metabarcoding using DNA extracted from community …