Modern Insect Extinctions, the Neglected Majority

By R. Dunn. 2005

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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Assessing spider species richness and composition in Mediterranean cork oak forests (2008, background): “When corrected for knowledge bias, data on arthropods show that risk of extinction is as real for them as it is for vertebrates (Thomas and Morris, 1994; MacKinney, 1999; Dunn, 2005).”
The threat of invasive species to IUCN-listed critically endangered species: A systematic review (2021, background): “…group shows a high decline, with more than half of the species affected by habitat loss and pollution; invasive species are considered a lesser threat (S anchez-Bayo and Wyckhuys, 2019), although there is no documented research on the causes of extinction of a large number of insects (Dunn, 2005).”
Monitoring arthropods in a tropical landscape: relative effects of sampling methods and habitat types on trap catches (2009, background): “1995) and these extinctions will primarily involve arthropods (Dunn 2005).”
Odonata enter the biodiversity crisis debate: The first global assessment of an insect group (2009, background): “mammals, birds and amphibians) (Ceballos and Ehrlich, 2006; Stattersfield and Capper, 2000; Stuart et al., 2004), while the highest extinction risk and therefore greatest loss of biodiversity is expected to be suffered by invertebrates (Thomas et al., 2004; Hadfield, 1993), specifically insects ( Du”
Geographical, temporal and taxonomic biases in insect GBIF data on biodiversity and extinction (2021, background): “This is especially bad for poorly studied taxa (Dunn, 2005; Stork, 2010; Régnier et al., 2015).”
The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus (2007, background): “Most invertebrate extinctions are likely to be overlooked (Centinelan extinctions sensu Wilson (1992)) even in well-studied areas such as Europe, mainly because of a lack of knowledge and monitoring of these taxa ( Dunn, 2005 ).”
The seven impediments in invertebrate conservation and how to overcome them (2011, background): “Nevertheless, only 70 species have been officially reported extinct for the last 600 years (Dunn, 2005), all others having vanished before discovery or description, the so-called Centinelan (Wilson, 1992) or Linnean extinctions (Cardoso et al., 2010; Ladle and Jepson, 2008; Régnier et al., 2009;…”
Indirect effects of parasites in invasions (2012, background): “& Dunn, A.M. (2012) Predatory functional responses and prey choice identify differences between native/invasive and parasitized/unparasitised crayfish. PLoS ONE 7, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone0032229. Hall, R.J. (2011) Eating the competition speeds up invasions.”
Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change. (2007, neutral): “These concerns are warranted, based on recent evidence of declines at local or regional scales (e.g. Larsen et al. 2005; Biesmeijer et al. 2006), evidence for elevated extinction rates across all taxa (Dunn 2005; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005) and the precautionary principle.”
Adapting the IUCN Red List criteria for invertebrates (2011, background): “There is an increasing awareness that the vast majority of extinctions go unnoticed because they occur within small, strongly neglected organisms (e.g., Koh et al., 2004; Dunn, 2005; Dunn et al., 2009; Régnier et al., 2009; Cardoso et al., 2010; Triantis et al., 2010).”
The new Noah's Ark: beautiful and useful species only. Part 2. The chosen species (2012, background): “The domination of the conservation world by the charismatic megafauna has led to complaints that other groups of species are being ignored, for example plants (Marinelli 2005), fungi (Moore et al. 2001) and insects (Dunn 2005).”
Conserving Southeast Asian forest biodiversity in human-modified landscapes (2010, background): “Invertebrates comprise a dominant component of tropical diversity in terms of richness, abundance and biomass (Dunn, 2005).”
Rapid biodiversity assessment of spiders (Araneae) using semi‐quantitative sampling: a case study in a Mediterranean forest (2008, background): “When corrected for knowledge bias, data on arthropods show that risk of extinction is as real as for vertebrates (Thomas & Morris, 1994; McKinney, 1999; Dunn, 2005).”
Ground spider assemblages as indicators for habitat structure in inland sand ecosystems (2010, background): “Therefore, several authors claim for a more prominent use of invertebrates within the field of conservation biology and biodiversity studies (McKinney 1999; New 1999a, b; Wheater et al. 2000; Dunn 2005; Spitzer and Danks 2006).”