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Insects are doing fine in the US but Europe isn’t faring all that well https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1269-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559
by jjcon 6y ago
Insects are doing fine in the US but Europe isn’t faring all that well
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1269-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1269-4
> Recent reports of dramatic declines in insect abundance suggest grave consequences for global ecosystems and human society. Most evidence comes from Europe, however, leaving uncertainty about insect population trends worldwide. We used >5,300 time series for insects and other arthropods, collected over 4–36 years at monitoring sites representing 68 different natural and managed areas, to search for evidence of declines across the United States. Some taxa and sites showed decreases in abundance and diversity while others increased or were unchanged, yielding net abundance and biodiversity trends generally indistinguishable from zero.