Declines in insectivorous birds are associated with high neonicotinoid concentrations

By C. Hallmann, R. Foppen, C. Turnhout, H. de Kroon, Eelke Jongejans. Nature, 2014

920 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a26416284af37760436cfa1368138a46b911e21e

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

In Genetics

In Insect Science

Citations in the corpus

Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers (2019, background): “(Lister and Garcia, 2018) inevitably lead to a starvation of dependent vertebrates (Hallmann et al., 2014; Lister and Garcia, 2018; Poulin et al., 2010; Wickramasinghe et al., 2003).”
More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas (2017, neutral): “Agricultural intensification, including the disappearance of field margins and new crop protection methods has been associated with an overall decline of biodiversity in plants, insects, birds and other species in the current landscape [20, 27, 67].”
Neonicotinoid insecticide travels through a soil food chain, disrupting biological control of non-target pests and decreasing soya bean yield (2015, background): “So far, these discussions have focused mainly on managed and wild pollinators and have only recently widened to include other wildlife such as aquatic invertebrates and birds (e.g. van Dijk, van Staalduinen & van der Sluijs 2013; Hallmann et al. 2014).”
Further evidence for a global decline of the entomofauna (2020, background): “Pesticides are another suggested driving factor, given their direct negative effects on farm insects and their indirect effects on insectivorous birds (Poulin and Lefebvre 1997; Poulin 2012; Hallmann et al. 2014).”
Bats in the Anthropogenic Matrix: Challenges and Opportunities for the Conservation of Chiroptera and Their Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes (2016, background): “recent research demonstrates a negative impact on birds (Hallmann et al. 2014).”
The Hidden and External Costs of Pesticide Use (2016, background): “…agricultural practices, decrease levels of cereal grains, weed seeds and arthropods, thereby potentially contributing to the decline of bird species dependent on these resources for survival, e.g. Wilson et al. ( 1999 ) for granivorous birds and Hallmann et al. ( 2014 ) for insectivorous birds.”
Agricultural insecticides threaten surface waters at the global scale (2015, background): “Nonetheless, recent studies (19, 33) on agricultural neonicotinoid use reveal environmental concerns for both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.”
Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web (2018, background): “Common drivers of plummeting bird populations mentioned in the literature are habitat loss, effects of temperature on reproduction (87–89), water stress (90), increased predation (91, 92), a disconnect between rates of climate change and climate tracking (93), mismatches between breeding period and ”