Insect Conservation and Diversity

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Species traits to guide moth conservation in anthropogenic regions: A multi‐species approach using distribution trends in Flanders (northern Belgium)	73
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Ecological communities in white‐sand Amazonian rainforests are sensitive to deforestation—A dung beetle case	42
eDNA metabarcoding of archived leaf samples reveals arthropod diversity decline in South Korean but not in German forest ecosystems	40
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Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity patterns of Saturniidae moth communities along a tropical forest recovery gradient in Ecuador	36
Scorpion assemblages in threatened Brazilian forests: The role of environmental factors in explaining beta‐diversity patterns	29
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Thriving in the heat: How high temperatures and habitat disturbance shape odonate taxonomic and functional diversity in the tropics	27
Consistent imprints of elevation, soil temperature and moisture on plant and arthropod communities across two subarctic landscapes	26
Contribution of citizen sciences to the production of butterfly species long‐term trends	26
Local floral abundance influences bumble bee occupancy more than urban‐agricultural landscape context	25
A colourful world with a dark future: Unregulated trade as an emerging threat for woodlice (Isopoda: Oniscidea) of Spain	25
Reaching new heights: Arboreal ant diversity in a North American temperate forest ecosystem	24
Conservation implications of a genomic‐based taxonomy for threatened allopatric Agriades butterflies	20
Towards reliable estimates of abundance trends using automated non‐lethal moth traps	20
Intraspecific trait variation of carrion beetle species and communities across elevations	20
Solitary oil‐collecting bee in cities: Habitat suitability and lack of population structuring in Centris analis	19
Gaps and spatial trends in the accurate data available on mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) in Brazil: Inventory completeness and priority areas	18
Intensity and colour of artificial light at night affect insect attraction in a taxon‐dependent manner	18
Phylogeography of the Iberian endemic butterfly Erebia palarica Chapman, 1905 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): An integrative approach	18
Long‐distance movements, large population sizes and density‐dependent dispersal in three threatened butterfly species	16
Translocation of arthropods with Sphagnum biomass during the establishment of a Sphagnum cultivation site	16
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High species turnover but functional stability in tropical ground‐dwelling ant assemblages over 12 years of monitoring in Central Amazonia	15

Evolutionary genomics analysis reveals a unique lineage of Megachile pruina found in an isolated population in Bermuda	15
Magellanic woodpeckers as indicators of wood‐dwelling beetle diversity in trees with different levels of decay and under changing environmental conditions	14
Body size and abundance patterns of male orchid bees in a fragmented Neotropical landscape	14
Catch effectiveness, complementarity and costs of five sampling techniques for flying insects across different land use types	14
Genetic connectivity is maintained in two insect pollinators across a human‐altered landscape	14
High mortality of beetle migrants along the Eastern Mediterranean Flyway	14
Illegalities in the online trade of stingless bees in Brazil	14
Monitoring spatiotemporal patterns in the genetic diversity of a European butterfly species	14
Seasonal and spatial variation of stream macroinvertebrate taxonomic and functional diversity across three boreal regions	14
Predicting the South American invasion pathways of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum Linnaeus 1761 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) using species distribution models	13
Evidence of reproduction in the wild demonstrates initial success for reintroducing a Critically Endangered saproxylic hoverfly to a Scottish forest ecosystem	13
Reviving of Coenonympha oedippus : A comprehensive approach to the reintroduction of an endangered European	13
Scientists' warning on the need for greater inclusion of dragonflies in global conservation	13
Urbanisation drives inter‐ and intraspecific variation in flight‐related morphological traits of aquatic insects at different landscape scales	13
Modelling the scope to conserve an endemic‐rich mountain butterfly taxon in a changing climate	13
Trophic level and specialization moderate effects of habitat loss and landscape diversity on cavity‐nesting bees, wasps and their parasitoids	12
It is not a mere piece of the mainland: Fluvial islands contribute to regional spider diversity in a seasonally flooded Amazonian archipelago	12
Towards red listing understudied tropical insects: A case study of the dung beetles of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo	12
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Do carabids struggle to recolonize restored grasslands in the fragmented landscapes of Northern Belgium?	11
Water availability and land‐use shape the diversity of Odonata in the Middle East	11
Similar temporal patterns in insect richness, abundance and biomass across major habitat types	11
Woody encroachment affects multiple dimensions of ant diversity in a neotropical savanna	11
Long‐term population changes for the UK stag beetle Lucanus cervus —Evidence from citizen science surv	11
Myrmecophily is not a risk factor for long‐term occupancy trends of central European Lycaenidae butterflies	11
Prescribed fire affects arthropod occupancy of wood cavities in a temperate deciduous forest	11
A multidimensional study on population size, deadwood relationship and allometric variation of Lucanus cervus through citizen science	10
Social media highlights the overlooked impact of cats on arthropods	10
Patch‐burn management affects grassland butterfly communities in cattle‐grazed rangelands	10
Seasonal dynamics in terrestrial insect communities after the impact of the Brumadinho tailings dam disaster	10
Depicting environmental gradients from Malaise trap samples: Is ethanol‐based DNA metabarcoding enough?	9
Strong genetic differentiation between fragmented alpine bush‐cricket populations demands preservation of evolutionary significant units	9
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Butterfly community composition within a tropical urban landscape is influenced by habitat type and temperature	9
Conservation strategy insights for three protected Phengaris butterflies combining population genomics and landscape analyses	9
Back to the future: Climate change effects on habitat suitability of Parnassius apollo throughout	9
Increased urbanisation promotes winner‐loser species replacement and shifts in foraging behaviour among ant species in a large neotropical metropolis	9
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Contrasting results of multiple species delimitation approaches cause uncertainty in synecological studies: A case study on Sri Lankan chafers	8
Macroinvertebrate communities in high mountain desert wetlands: Building biological indexes to address the vulnerability of species and communities	8
Land‐use change in the Amazon decreases ant diversity but increases ant‐mediated predation	8
Occupancy changes over the summer of the rare fen raft spider Dolomedes plantarius in a drained fen strongly depend on vegetation structure	8
Local and landscape features of urban fragments determine the occurrence of stingless bees	8
Native insect species should be selected for classroom rearings	8
Effects of elevation and microclimatic temperatures on butterfly–flower interaction networks in a Mediterranean mountain range	8
Vulnerability and conservation value of monarch butterfly ( Danaus plexippus L.) roosting habitats east of the Appalachian Mountains, USA	8
Seasonality of native and non‐native flowers does not influence butterfly nectar foraging decisions in a semi‐urban meadow habitat	8
Using population viability analysis to inform and adapt ex situ conservation activities benefitting a critically endangered butterfly	8
Species‐ and trait‐based responses of carabids to rotation and closer‐to‐nature forestry in a temperate forest under changing climate	7

A novel farmland wildflower seed mix attracts a greater abundance and richness of pollinating insects than standard mixes	7
Floral resource strips enhance parasitoid abundance and diversity in apple orchards and promote agroecological advances in a South African biosphere reserve	7
Idiosyncratic trends of woodland invertebrate biodiversity in Britain over 45 years	7
Hair‐based minimally invasive barcoding of bumblebees	7
Effects of short‐term managed honey bee deployment in a native ecosystem on wild bee foraging and plant–pollinator networks	7
Associations between soil characteristics and ground‐nesting bees on farms	7
DNA metabarcoding and morphological identification reveal similar richness, taxonomic composition and body size patterns among flying insect communities	7
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Variation in pollen load composition carried by wild bee species in native and nearby agricultural environments in south‐eastern Australia	7
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Sheep and cattle grazing regimes differentially affect ground beetle and ant communities in Mediterranean cork oak woodlands	6
Responses of the hyper‐diverse community of canopy‐dwelling Hymenoptera to oak decline	6
Phylogeography, demographic history and distribution modelling of a funnel‐web wolf spider from southern South American grasslands: Implications for conservation strategies	6
Distribution models of polysphinctine parasitoid wasps ( H ymenoptera: I chneumonidae) reveal samp	6
Pollinators differentially respond to local and landscape grassland features	6
Correction to: Changes in predator biomass may mask the negative effects of neonicotinoids on primary consumers in field settings	6
Large uncertainty in trait responses across insects among overall declines in a subtropical city	6
Warmest spring on record in the United Kingdom provides insights into how a specialist spring‐flying butterfly may respond to future climate change	6
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Vertical stratification of leaf physical traits exerts bottom–up pressures on insect herbivory in a sugar maple temperate forest	6
Canopy sampling reveals hidden potential value of woodland trees for wild bee assemblages	6
Higher bee species richness in conservation areas compared with non‐conservation areas in south‐west Germany	6
Cryptic diversity of Oxythyrea flower chafers and its implication for conservation of non‐forest biotopes in the Balkans	6
Pollinators respond positively to urban green space enhancements using wild and ornamental flowers	6
Strong negative effects of recent wildfires on two endemic Macaronesian bush‐crickets	6
Dry grasslands in urban areas can harbour arthropod species of local conservation concern and should be prioritised for biodiversity‐friendly mowing regimes	6
Arthropod conservation in roadside verges: Unmown refuges outperform mowing equipment changes	6
Butterfly diversity, richness, and density patterns in Sierra Nevada ( SE Spain): Conservation implications under a global change scenario	5
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Locating nests of endangered bumble bees: Lessons from field trials in northern Germany	5
Toward a global repository of insect traits ( GRIT )	5
Grazing and mowing practices drive complex dynamics in the structure of butterfly communities in semi‐natural grasslands	5
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Fine‐scale bee species distribution models: Hotspots of richness and endemism in South Africa with species‐area comparisons	5
Competition among invasive and endemic carrion fly species in the Galapagos Islands with implications for biological control risk assessment	5
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Artificial trap‐nests: A useful tool to assess ants and myrmecophiles diversity	5
The role of landscape factors in shaping bumble bee pathogen loads across regions of the eastern Nearctic	5
Complex temporal trends in biomass and abundance of Diptera communities driven by the impact of agricultural intensity	5
Common milkweed gardens increase occupancy by monarch butterflies and other specialist herbivores towards an urban centre	5
DNA barcoding resolves quantitative multi‐trophic interaction networks and reveals pest species in trap nests	4
Contrasting effects of landscape on nest founding and colony success of bumble bees in a mixed‐crop agroecosystem	4
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Outer bounds: Forest edges emulate vertical strata as a habitat filter for butterfly assemblages	4
Conservation implications of shifting habitat use in migrating insects: Selection patterns in a threatened damselfly show that season‐specific actions are needed	4
Drivers of compositional turnover in narrow‐ranged and widespread dragonflies and damselflies in Africa	4
Traits drive responses of aphidophagous coccinellid communities to landscape complexity	4
Shade tree isolation in pastures modulates diversity of epiphyte‐dwelling spiders: The role of epiphyte biomass and species dispersal capacity	4
Chorotypes, zones for the conservation of Scarabaeoidea, and representativity in protected areas of El Salvador	4
Environmental correlates of aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity in garden ponds: Implications for pond management	4
Random year intercepts in mixed models help to assess uncertainties in insect population trends	4
Transect walks and malaise traps differ in temperature sensitivity but reveal consistent drivers of pollinator richness	4
Trends in the Brazilians' engagement with insects on the internet	4
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Climatic stability and species turnover as potential drivers of latitudinal diversity gradients in Chilean wild bees	4
Landscape type affects the functional diversity of carabid beetles in agricultural landscapes	4
Fire frequency shapes diversity in multi‐guild communities through direct and indirect pathways	4
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Leveraging historical field notebooks to uncover continental‐scale patterns in the diversity of Australian grasshoppers	4
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The tragedy of the common? A comparative population genomic study of two bumblebee species	4
‘Disease‐smart’ outcrossing can enhance individual fitness and increase survival via immune priming against pathogens: New approaches to strengthen genetic rescue efforts	4
Distribution patterns of orchid bees in xeric and mesic habitats on a tropical mountaintop	4
Effect of landscape structure depends on habitat type in shaping spider communities of a natural mosaic of Eurasian forest‐steppe	4
The impact of land use on the acoustic behaviour of cicadas in the Chocó lowland tropical forest of Ecuador	4
Flowering areas enhance insect pollinators and biological control agents in wheat intensive agro‐ecosystems	4
Urban intensity gradients shape community structure, life‐history traits and performance in a multitrophic system	4
Insect biomass shows a stronger decrease than species richness along urban gradients	4
The ecological functions of dung beetles are shaped by multiple dimensions of diversity	3
Intra‐ and inter‐specific variability in the temporal trends of butterfly phenology in the Northern Alps	3
Species traits may predict extinction risk of Azorean endemic arthropods	3
Non‐native ants drive dramatic declines in animal community diversity: A meta‐analysis	3
Butterflies at porch lights: Exploring nocturnal light visitation in butterflies using community science data from iNaturalist	3
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Comparison of microscopy and metabarcoding to identify pollen used by the critically endangered rusty patched bumble bee, Bombus affinis	3
Restoration and rescue in an age of extinction: Translocation and reintroduction of insects and other arthropods	3
Disentangling how urbanisation influences moth diversity in grasslands	3
Environmental drivers of the diversity and distribution of black flies ( D iptera: S imuliidae) in	3
Host plants and landscape predict use of roadside habitat by breeding monarchs	3

Ecological and life‐history traits predict temporal trends in biomass of boreal moths	3
Landscape influence on pollinator population genetic connectivity	3
Light and Malaise traps tell different stories about the spatial variations in arthropod biomass and method‐specific insect abundance	3
Changes in predator biomass may mask the negative effects of neonicotinoids on primary consumers in field settings	3
Restoring tree species mixtures mitigates the adverse effects of pine monoculture and drought on forest carabids	3
Scolytine beetle diversity along an altitudinal gradient in Papua New Guinea	3
Effect of bulb type on moth trap catch and composition in UK gardens	3
Floral richness drives pollinator diversity after fire in upland forests and meadows of the Sierra Nevada, California	3
Shedding light on dark taxa in sky‐island Appalachian leaf litter: Assessing patterns of endemicity using large‐scale, voucher‐based barcoding	3
Contrasting patterns of habitat use in a threatened carabid ( Carabus intricatus ) and a sympatric congener in ancient temperate rainforest	3
Extensive mismatch between protected areas and biodiversity hotspots of Iranian Lepidoptera	3
Hermit beetle ( Osmoderma barnabita ) habitat selection and movement are shaped by tree microhabitat availability in Eastern Romanian Carpathians	3
Examining elevation and thermoregulatory trait differences of endemic tropical swallowtail butterflies to assess their vulnerability to climate change	3
Bark‐beetle disturbance severity only moderately alters forest affinity of arthropod communities	3
Nest aggregations of wild bees and apoid wasps in urban pavements: A ‘street life’ to be promoted in urban planning	3
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Weather explains inter‐annual variability, but not the temporal decline, in insect biomass	3
Predicting northern stonefly responses to climate change using species distribution modelling and population genetics (Plecoptera: Nemouridae)	3
Priority areas for arthropod conservation in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands: Insights from a multi‐taxon distributional database	3
Ecologically sustainable retention forestry supports spider biodiversity in the Lower Morava UNESCO Biosphere Reserve	3
Does behaviour matter? The role and feasibility of research into arthropod behavioural syndromes to inform invertebrate translocation efforts	3
Modelling decisions and density dependence in monarch butterflies: A comment on Meehan and Crossley (2023)	3
Temporal ecological processes have different seasonal influences on multiple dimensions of riverine insect diversity in China	2
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Accounting for dispersal and intraspecific variation in forecasts of species distribution under climate change	2
Fifty years of monitoring changes in the abundance of invertebrates in the cereal ecosystem of the Sussex Downs, England	2
Temperature and tree number drive tree crown‐dwelling arthropod diversity in Brazilian semi‐arid cities	2
Restoring declining species through translocations: A test case using flightless grasshoppers in an urban setting	2
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Diversity of bumble bees and butterflies in Minnesota roadsides depends on floral diversity and abundance but not floral native status	2
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Spider diversity in a disturbed forest landscape highlights the importance of management heterogeneity	2
Taxonomic and functional homogenization of butterfly communities along an urban gradient	2
Differential response of plant and insect pollinator communities to fragmentation in coastal dune slacks	2
Butterfly biodiversity increases with prairie strips and conservation management in row crop agriculture	2
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Asymmetric responses by bees and aculeate wasps to dune stabilisation across the southern Canadian prairies	2
Living on the edge—Genomic and ecological delineation of cryptic lineages in the high‐elevation specialist Erebia nivalis	2
Grazing‐induced changes in the abundance and diversity of grasshoppers is mediated through changes in plant functional groups	2
Impacts of land use change on diaspore‐dispersing ant assemblages in southwestern Amazonia	2
Integrating eDNA and community science to monitor urban Odonata diversity	2
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Tens of thousands of migrating hoverflies found dead on a strandline in the South of France	2
Examining the bias of pitfall traps with enclosure experiments and removal sampling	2
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Local and landscape drivers of natural enemy communities in Indonesian oil palm plantation	2
Estimating wild bee population size with validated distance sampling	2
Radio telemetry reveals extensive dispersal capabilities of reintroduced Great Capricorn beetles ( Cerambyx cerdo ) in oak habitats at their northern ran	2
The value of public databases for our knowledge of national spider biodiversity compared to a long‐term scientific monitoring project	2
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Wetland cover in agricultural landscapes is positively associated with bumblebee abundance	2
Gene flow stimulates recovery of reproductive fitness in a captive bred insect	2
Urban peatlands can harbour diverse insect communities but depend on appropriate habitat management	2
Genetic and phenotypic responses to habitat fragmentation in a European harvester ant	2
Unmanaged forest swamps benefit saproxylic and soil‐inhabiting crane fly communities	2
Mapping wing morphs of Tetrix subulata using citizen science data: Flightless groundhoppers are more prevalent in grasslands near water	2
Change in monarch winter abundance over the past decade: A Red List perspective	2
Diet breadth shapes gut microbiota in the invasive hornet Vespa velutina	2
Mismatches in the occurrence of endangered butterflies and macro‐moths inside and outside nature reserves	2
Forest type influence on Heliconia‐dipteran interaction networks	2
When ice and sea are not barriers for flies: First report of Trichocera maculipennis ( Diptera ) in	2
Species diversification of the Lucanus maculifemoratus complex (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) in East Asia: Implications for biodiversity	2
Using citizen science as a research prioritization tool to detect co‐occurrences of the invasive species Harmonia axyridis	2