More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas.
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...Rather surprisingly, 80% of observed inter-annual variability in insect numbers was left unexplained (Hallmann et al., 2017)....
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...T shocking 76% decline in flying insect biomass at several of Germany's protected areas (Hallmann et al., 2017)....
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...The large declines in insect biomass observed in Europe (Hallmann et al., 2017) and Puerto Rico (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)....
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...The large declines in insect biomass observed in Europe (Hallmann et al., 2017) and Puerto Rico 0 0....
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...shocking 76% decline in flying insect biomass at several of Germany's protected areas (Hallmann et al., 2017)....
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...potential scale reduction factor [54] (commonly R̂), that measures the ratio of posterior distributions between independent MCM chains (in all models, all parameters attained values below 1....
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...Parameter values are obtained by the use of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods by the aid of JAGS (Just Another Gibbs Sampler [50]) invoked through R [51] and the R2Jags package [52]....
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