In case you were as annoyed as me by the verbosity: "[A] 2014 review in Science tried to quantify these declines by synthesizing the findings of existing studi

In case you were as annoyed as me by the verbosity: "[A] 2014 review in Science tried to quantify these declines by synthesizing the findings of existing studies and found that a majority of monitored species were declining, on average by 45 percent."