Insect pollination establishes an ecosystem service around the globe, providing compelling budgetary and creative profits along with developmental values to humans and vital eco-friendly measures for the environment. It is, therefore, essential to understand how insect pollinator populations and...

The next 50 years will be especially challenging for invertebrate conservation. The twin issues of biodiversity loss and climate change are leading to a mass extinction that is unprecedented in our time. Insect populations are declining at an alarming rate and although a wide variety of animals are ...

1. The decline in insect abundance and diversity observed in many ecosystems is of major concern because of the long-term consequences for ecosystem function and stability. 2. Species in ecological communities are connected through interactions forming complex networks. Therefore, initial...

Biodiversity of insects is threatened worldwide. Here, we present a comprehensive review of 73 historical reports of insect declines from across the globe, and systematically assess the underlying drivers. Our work reveals dramatic rates of decline that may lead to the extinction of 40% of the...

The mass loss of insects is gaining momentum in the twenty-first century, compared with the previous 100 years. The loss is coinciding with accelerating threats, including megafires, flooding, temperature extremes, urbanisation, and habitat loss. In global diversity hotspots, where endemism is...

This paper summarize the evidence for insect declines in the UK, the drivers of trends, and interventions to support the recovery of insect populations. Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation, urbanization, land use intensification, pesticides, fertilizers, veterinary medicines, and climate...

Several previous studies have investigated changes in insect biodiversity, with some highlighting declines and others showing turnover in species composition without net declines. Although research has shown that biodiversity changes are driven primarily by land-use change and increasingly by ...

To study insect decline, an important threat to biodiversity, long-term datasets are needed. Here we present a study of hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae) abundance and diversity in a Dutch forest, surrounded by other forests, and analyse the variation in insect numbers over four decades. Between 1982...

Biodiversity is currently declining worldwide. Several threats have been identified such as habitat loss and climate change. It is unknown if and how air pollution can work in addition or in synergy to these threats, contributing to the decline of current species and/or local extinction. Few...

The biodiversity of insects is threatened worldwide. Numerous studies have reported the serious decline in insects that has occurred in recent decades. The same is happening with the important group of pollinators, with an essential utility for pollination of crops. Loss of insect diversity and...