Where Have All The Bugs Gone? Deep Dive
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Have you heard about the insect apocalypse? The bugs are going extinct? Is it true? Is there *really* and apocalypse? Let's deep dive and find out.
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0:00 Dramatic Intro
1:06 Why Care?
3:38 The Echoed Stories
7:43 Letter To Someone 50 Years From Now
8:38 The Research That Started It All
17:10 Reviews & Metanalysis
27.37 I've Got 99 Problems
34:51 The Trends
40:33 Where We Are Now
43:05 What We Can Do
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Major Research Articles Used:
Altermatt F. Ebert D. 2016. Reduced flight-to-light behaviour of moth populations exposed to long-term urban light pollution. Biology Letters 12: 20160111
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Cardoso P. Erwin TL. Borges P AV. New TR. 2011. The seven impediments in invertebrate conservation and how to overcome them. Biological Conservation 144(2011) 2467-2655.
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Conrad KF. Warre n MS. Fox R. Parsons MS. Woiwod IP. 2006. Rapid declines of common, widespread British moths provide evidence of an insect biodiversity crisis. Biological Conservation 132(3): 279-291.
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Crossley MS. Meier AR. Baldwin EM. Berry LL. Crenshaw LC. et al. 2020. No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US Long Term Ecological Research sites. Nature Ecology & Evolution
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-12...
Dirzo R. Young HS. Galetti M. Ceballow G. Isaac N JB. Collen B. 2014. Defaunation in the Anthropocene Science 345(6195): 401-406.
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Goulman D. 2019. The insect apocalypse, and why it matters. Current Biology 29(19): R967-R971
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Hallmann CA. Sorg M. Jongejans E. Siepel H. Hofland N. Schwan H. et al. 2017. More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0185809
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
Lister B & Garcia A. 2018. Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance
restructure a rainforest food web. PNAS (115)44: 115 (44) E10397-E10406
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Moret P, Arauz M, Gobbi M. 2016. Climate warming effects in the tropical Andes: first evidence for upslope shifts of Carabidae (Coleoptera) in Ecuador. Insect Conservation and Diversity
DOI: 10.1111/icad.12173
Sánchez-Bayo F & Kris AG Wyhckhuys. 2019. Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers. Biological Conservation 232(2019): 8-27.
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Staab M. Gossner MM. Simon NK. Achury R. Ambarli D. et al. 2023. Insect decline in forests depends on species’ traits and may be mitigated by management. Community Biology 338(2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04...
van Klink R, Bowler DE, Gongalsky KB, Swengel AB, Gentile A, Chase JM. 2020. Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances. Science 368(6489): 417-420
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van Klink R. Bowler DE. Gongalsky KB. Shen M. Swengel SR. Chase JM. 2023. Disproportionate declines of formerly abundant species underlie insect loss. Nature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06...
Wagner D. Grames EM. Forister ML. Berebaum MR. Stopak D. 2021. Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts. PNAS 118(2): e2023989118
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Wolda H. 1992. Trends in Abundance of Tropical Forest Insects. Oecologia 89(1): 47-52
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