International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

A growing number of studies are providing evidence that a suite of anthropogenic stressors — habitat loss and fragmentation, pollution, invasive species, climate change and overharvesting — are seriously reducing insect and other invertebrate abundance, diversity and biomass across the biosphere. These declines affect all functional groups: herbivores, detritivores, parasitoids, predators and pollinators. Insects are vitally important in a wide range of ecosystem services of which some are vitally important for food production and security (for example, pollination and pest control). […].

Keywords

Ecology Insect Conservation

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/5912

Citation

Harvey, J. A., Heinen, R., Armbrecht, I., Basset, Y., Baxter-Gilbert, J. H., Bezemer, T. M., Böhm, M., Bommarco, R., Borges, P. A. V., Cardoso, P., Clausnitzer, V., Cornelisse, T., Crone, E. E., Dicke, M., Dijkstra, K-D. B., Dyer, L., Ellers, J., Fartmann, T., Forister, M. L., ... de Kroon, H. (2020). International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery: Correspondence. "Nature Ecology and Evolution", 4, 174-176. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1079-8