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Insect Declines in the Anthropocene
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Because the geographic extent and magnitude of insect declines are largely unknown, there is an urgent need for monitoring efforts, especially across ecological gradients, which will help to identify important causal factors in declines.Abstract:
Insect declines are being reported worldwide for flying, ground, and aquatic lineages. Most reports come from western and northern Europe, where the insect fauna is well-studied and there are consi...read more
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Climate change 2014 - Mitigation of climate change
TL;DR: The work of the IPCC Working Group III 5th Assessment report as mentioned in this paper is a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change, which has been extensively reviewed by experts and governments to ensure quality and comprehensiveness.
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Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts
TL;DR: Wagner et al. as discussed by the authors found that more than half of all amphibians are imperiled and more than 80% of all vertebrate species are in danger of extinction over the next few decades.
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Vertebrates on the brink as indicators of biological annihilation and the sixth mass extinction.
TL;DR: The human-caused sixth mass extinction is likely accelerating for several reasons, including: many of the species that have been driven to the brink will likely become extinct soon, and the distribution of those species highly coincides with hundreds of other endangered species, surviving in regions with high human impacts, suggesting ongoing regional biodiversity collapses.
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Scientists' warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis.
James S. Albert,Georgia Destouni,Scott M. Duke-Sylvester,Anne E. Magurran,Thierry Oberdorff,Roberto E. Reis,Kirk O. Winemiller,William J. Ripple +7 more
TL;DR: This paper recommends a set of urgent policy actions that promote clean water, conserve watershed services, and restore freshwater ecosystems and their vital services.
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Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward
Raphael K. Didham,Raphael K. Didham,Yves Basset,C. Matilda Collins,Simon R. Leather,Nick A. Littlewood,Myles H. M. Menz,Jörg Müller,Jörg Müller,Laurence Packer,Manu E. Saunders,Karsten Schönrogge,Alan J. A. Stewart,Stephen P. Yanoviak,Stephen P. Yanoviak,Christopher Hassall +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify seven key challenges in drawing robust inference about insect population declines: establishment of the historical baseline, representativeness of site selection, robustness of time series trend estimation, mitigation of detection bias effects, and ability to account for potential artefacts of density dependence, phenological shifts and scale-dependence in extrapolation from sample abundance to population level inference.
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