“Ecological Armageddon” - more evidence for the drastic decline in insect numbers

By Simon R. Leather. 2018

169 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/628128057d29d7c7016a0f2abc6e70b2ecab9f93

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Citations in the corpus

Predicting a global insect apocalypse (2019, background): “It is also blindingly obvious, that existing studies should continue to be fully supported and new studies funded (Leather, 2018).”
Cascading extinctions as a hidden driver of insect decline (2020, background): “Many studies report marked declines in insect abundance and diversity across ecosystems and taxa (Hallmann et al., 2017; Leather, 2018; Habel et al., 2019; Montgomery et al., 2020).”
Insect Declines in the Anthropocene. (2020, background): “The recent spate of high-pro!le reports of impoverished insect faunas from Europe and around the globe (68, 87, 88, 108, 109, 156, 186) have drawn the attention of entomologists, vertebrate biologists, ecologists, conservation biologists, and other environmentalists, as well as the press, nongovernm”
Geographical, temporal and taxonomic biases in insect GBIF data on biodiversity and extinction (2021, background): “Finally, current knowledge of insect declines frequently use taxa that are relatively well-known, representing a relatively small proportion of the tree of life with consequent phylogenetic and functional biases (Leather, 2018).”
A Global Perspective on Firefly Extinction Threats (2020, result): “…apparent that such opinions cannot be used to identify the relative importance or extent of such threats, our results are consistent with other assessments of the multifaceted causes for general declines in insect abundance and biodiversity (e.g., Leather 2018, Wagner 2018, 2020, Homburg et al.”
The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation? (2022, unknown): “…combined with exaggeration of perceived professional differences of opinion among scientists, regarding, for instance, analysis and interpretation of data (e.g. Leung et al ., 2020) and the likelihood of insect ‘ Armageddon ’ (Leather, 2017; Desquilbet et al ., 2020; Van Klink et al ., 2020).”
Where have all the beetles gone? Long‐term study reveals carabid species decline in a nature reserve in Northern Germany (2019, background): “Since then the insect decline has received a lot of attention, both in ecological and conservation research and in public media as the phenomenon might occur globally at a high pace, with yet unknown ecological consequences (Leather, 2018).”