Rapid declines of common, widespread British moths provide evidence of an insect biodiversity crisis

By K. F. Conrad, M. Warren, R. Fox, Mark S. Parsons, I. Woiwod. 2006

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Protecting an ecosystem service: approaches to understanding and mitigating threats to wild insect pollinators (2016, background): “…has been reported to be in decline 419 across much of Europe (Biesmeijer et al., 2006; Bommarco et al., 2012a; Carvalheiro et al., 420 2013; Conrad et al., 2006; Nilsson et al., 2013; Ollerton et al., 2014; Senapathi et al., 2015; 421 Wenzel et al., 2006) and N. America (Burkle et al.,…”
Is light pollution driving moth population declines? A review of causal mechanisms across the life cycle (2020, background): “Yet, in the Rothamsted Insect Survey (a UK-wide, long-term systematic monitoring scheme), abundance trends from locations where light pollution had increased from 1992 to 2000 were not more negative than trends at sites that remained dark (Conrad et al., 2006).”
BirdTrends 2014: trends in numbers, breeding success and survival for UK breeding birds (2014, background): “…contribute to the increasing nestling failure rates underpinning the productivity declines detected for Shortall et al. 2009), particularly moths (Conrad et al. 2006, Fox 2013), have been reported across the UK and these may also impact on the productivity of nesting attempts of all three…”
Is the insect apocalypse upon us? How to find out (2020, background): “One important aspect of many recent studies is the decline of formerly common species, not just rare taxa (Conrad et al., 2006; Van Dyck et al., 2009; Fox et al., 2015), with the realization that such losses likely come with changes to ecosystem connectivity and function (Gaston and Fuller, 2007; Di”
Identifying key knowledge needs for evidence‐based conservation of wild insect pollinators: a collaborative cross‐sectoral exercise (2013, background): “The direct evidence we have of declines in wild pollinator abundance over time (as opposed to declines in diversity or range) comes largely from long-term data on butterflies (and, to a lesser extent, moths), collected through participatory monitoring schemes with defined survey protocols involving ”
The state of the Dutch larger moth fauna (2011, unknown): “We present (1) figures on trends of larger moths in the Netherlands and (2) a comparison with the state of Britain’s larger moths as described in Conrad et al. (2006) and Fox et al. (2006).”
Artificial light at night inhibits mating in a Geometrid moth (2015, background): “…predation risk (Rydell, 1992), this inhibition of reproduction may at least partly contribute to the observed rapid moth declines in Western Europe (Conrad et al., 2006; Groenendijk & Ellis, 2011; Fox et al., 2014) Furthermore, we show that a reduction in the amount of short wavelength only partly…”
Dark Matters: The Effects of Artificial Lighting on Bats (2016, background): “Light pollution may even be a driver of an insect biodiversity crisis (Conrad et al. 2006).”
Optimizing the biodiversity gain from agri-environment schemes (2009, background): “However, rapid and significant declines have been recorded for many common and widespread moth species that inhabit farmland in the UK, and possibly in the majority of temperate zones (Conrad et al., 2006).”
The ‘night shift’: nocturnal pollen‐transport networks in a boreal pine forest (2011, background): “Finally, moths are regarded as important indicators of environmental change (Luff & Woiwod, 1995; New, 2004; Thomas, 2005; Conrad et al., 2006) and accumulating evidence suggests that populations in Europe and North America are in decline (Conrad et al.”
Macro‐moth families differ in their attraction to light: implications for light‐trap monitoring programmes (2014, unknown): “These trends may form part of a wider insect biodiversity crisis (e.g. Conrad et al., 2006; Goulson et al., 2008; Brooks et al., 2012).”
Large carabid beetle declines in a United Kingdom monitoring network increases evidence for a widespread loss in insect biodiversity (2012, result): “These declines are comparable to trends for other insect groups, thereby contributing to growing evidence that this class is suffering especially serious biodiversity losses (Thomas & Clarke 2004; Conrad et al. 2006).”
Effect of spectral composition of artificial light on the attraction of moths (2011, background): “The use of street lighting, security lighting and other urban light sources negatively affected many animal and plant species (Rich and Longcore, 2006), and it is considered to be one of the major threats to moth populations (Frank, 2006; Conrad et al., 2006; Groenendijk and Ellis, 2011).”
Artificial night lighting disrupts sex pheromone in a noctuid moth (2015, background): “These declines are partly ascribed to nocturnal illumination (Conrad et al., 2006; Groenendijk & Ellis, 2011; Fox, 2013), with the proposed mechanism being phototaxis.”
Further evidence for a global decline of the entomofauna (2020, background): “For the same reason, an annual 1.8% decrease in moth biomass in the UK since 1982 (Macgregor et al. 2019) may be underestimating the actual drop in abundance for 66% of moth species in that country (Conrad et al. 2006).”