Insect Conservation and Diversity

Article	Citations
A global review of determinants of native bee assemblages in urbanised landscapes	53
Temperature drives variation in flying insect biomass across a German malaise trap network	41
Light pollution is the fastest growing potential threat to firefly conservation in the Atlantic Forest hotspot	38
Accounting for year effects and sampling error in temporal analyses of invertebrate population and biodiversity change: a comment on Seibold et al. 2019	37
Assessing long‐term effects of artificial light at night on insects: what is missing and how to get there	32
Limited understanding of bushfire impacts on Australian invertebrates	31
Moths are strongly attracted to ultraviolet and blue radiation	31
What level of native beetle diversity can be supported by forestry plantations? A global synthesis	30
Intensive monitoring for bees in North America: indispensable or improvident?	30
Reducing the blue spectrum of artificial light at night minimises insect attraction in a tropical lowland forest	27
A revised Red List of British butterflies	26
Narrow‐spectrum artificial light silences female fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)	25
Forest hoverfly community collapse: Abundance and species richness drop over four decades	25
Crop visitation by wild bees declines over an 8‐year time series: A dramatic trend, or just dramatic between‐year variation?	24
The isolated Erebia pandrose Apennine population is genetically unique and endangered by climate change	23
Dealing with host and food searching in a diurnal parasitoid: consequences of light at night at intra‐ and trans‐generational levels	22
Frequent prescribed fires favour ground‐nesting bees in southeastern U.S. forests	21
Diversity, ecology, distribution and biogeography of Diplura	20
Temperature and not landscape composition shapes wild bee communities in an urban environment	18
Inventorying and monitoring crop pollinating bees: Evaluating the effectiveness of common sampling methods	18
Out of sight, out of mind: public and research interest in insects is negatively correlated with their conservation status	18
Aphidophagous ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and climate change: a review	18
Butterfly communities track climatic variation over space but not time in the Iberian Peninsula	17
Monitoring and conservation of cryophilous biodiversity: concerns when working with insect populations in vanishing glacial habitats	17
Impacts of artificial lighting at night on insect conservation	17

Fallows and permanent grasslands conserve the species composition and functional diversity of carabid beetles and linyphiid spiders in agricultural landscapes	17
Saproxylic beetles trace deadwood and differentiate between deadwood niches before their arrival on potential hosts	17
A century of social wasp occupancy trends from natural history collections: spatiotemporal resolutions have little effect on model performance	17
A comparison of different Malaise trap types	17
Bat–bat fly interactions in Central Panama: host traits relate to modularity in a highly specialised network	16
Millipedes step up: species extend their upper elevational limit in the Alps in response to climate warming	15
Quick recovery of a threatened butterfly in well‐connected patches following an extreme drought	15
Grand challenges in entomology: Priorities for action in the coming decades	15
National records of 3000 European bee and hoverfly species: A contribution to pollinator conservation	15
Toxicity of ivermectin residues in aged farmyard manure to terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates	14
Shedding light on dark taxa in sky‐island Appalachian leaf litter: Assessing patterns of endemicity using large‐scale, voucher‐based barcoding	14
Effects of short‐term managed honey bee deployment in a native ecosystem on wild bee foraging and plant–pollinator networks	14
Biology and conservation of the European stag beetle: recent advances and lessons learned	13
Abandonment of traditional land use and climate change threaten the survival of an endangered relict butterfly species	13
Illegalities in the online trade of stingless bees in Brazil	13
Five years of citizen science and standardised field surveys in an informal urban green space reveal a threatened Eden for wild bees in Brussels, Belgium	13
Spectral optimization of beacon lights for the protection of night‐swarming mayflies	12
Rapid assessment of the three‐dimensional distribution of dominant arboreal ants in tropical forests	12
A worthy conservation target? Revising the status of the rarest bumblebee of Europe	12
The positive association between natural vegetation, native coccinellids and functional diversity of aphidophagous coccinellid communities in alfalfa	12
Grazing impacts on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) abundance and diversity on semi‐natural grassland	12
Flattening the curve: approaching complete sampling for diverse beetle communities	12
A comparison of wild bee communities in sown flower strips and semi‐natural habitats: A pollination network approach	12
A sunny spot: habitat management through vegetation cuts increases oviposition in abandoned fields in an endemic Mediterranean butterfly	12
Moth declines are most severe in broadleaf woodlands despite a net gain in habitat availability	12
Structure and robustness of the Neotropical ant‐gardens network under climate change	11
Canopy sampling reveals hidden potential value of woodland trees for wild bee assemblages	11
Land‐use change differentially affects endemic, forest and open‐land butterflies in Madagascar	11
Community changes in odonate monitoring: why are long‐term studies so relevant?	11
Recovery of dung beetle biodiversity and traits in a regenerating rainforest: a case study from Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula	10
Effects of climate change on the distribution of threatened invertebrates in a Mediterranean hotspot	10
Non‐native ants drive dramatic declines in animal community diversity: A meta‐analysis	10
Ecological and life‐history traits predict temporal trends in biomass of boreal moths	10
Are patterns of sampling effort and completeness of inventories congruent? A test using databases for five insect taxa in the Iberian Peninsula	10
The role of a rosette‐shaped plant (Eryngium horridum, Apiaceae) on grassland spiders along a grazing intensity gradient	9
Light and Malaise traps tell different stories about the spatial variations in arthropod biomass and method‐specific insect abundance	9
From pastures to forests: Changes in Mediterranean wild bee communities after rural land abandonment	9
Climate and ice in the last glacial maximum explain patterns of isolation by distance inferred for alpine grasshoppers	9
Butterflies on the dry edge of the Atlantic Forest: water availability determines community structure at the Northern limit of Atlantic Forest	8
Quantity and specialisation matter: Effects of quantitative and qualitative variation in willow chemistry on resource preference in leaf‐chewing insects	8
Insights from regional and short‐term biodiversity monitoring datasets are valuable: a reply to Daskalova et al. 2021	8
Prescribed fire increases the number of ground‐nesting bee nests in tallgrass prairie remnants	8
Seasonal and spatial variation of stream macroinvertebrate taxonomic and functional diversity across three boreal regions	7
Trends in butterfly populations in UK gardens—New evidence from citizen science monitoring	7
Ecological drivers of Odonata beta diversity in arid and semi‐arid regions of the Central Plateau of Iran	7
Depicting environmental gradients from Malaise trap samples: Is ethanol‐basedDNAmetabarcoding enough?	7
Urbanisation dampens the latitude‐diversity cline in ants	7
Wild bee visitors and their association with sown and unsown floral resources in reconstructed pollinator habitats within an agriculture landscape	7
‘Citizen identification’: online learning supports highly accurate species identification for insect‐focussed citizen science	7
Notes from rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis Cresson) nest observations	7

Woody encroachment affects multiple dimensions of ant diversity in a neotropical savanna	7
Restoring tree species mixtures mitigates the adverse effects of pine monoculture and drought on forest carabids	7
Conservation biogeography of high‐altitude longhorn beetles under climate change	7
A novel farmland wildflower seed mix attracts a greater abundance and richness of pollinating insects than standard mixes	7
What DNA barcodes reveal: microhabitat preference, hunting strategy and dispersal ability drive genetic variation across Iberian spider species	7
Incorporating genomics into insect conservation: Butterflies as a model group	7
Speciation of the cold‐adapted scorpionfly Cerapanorpa brevicornis (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) via interglacial refugia	6
Odonata metacommunity structure in northern ecosystems is driven by temperature and latitude	6
My home is your home: Nest boxes for birds and mammals provide habitats for diverse insect communities	6
Dispersal constraints on the potential distribution of cold‐adapted stag beetles (genus Platycerus) in Japan and the implications of climate change	6
Grassland fallows as key for successful insect conservation	6
Assemblages of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) along an elevational gradient in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea	6
Functional and taxonomic responses of tropical moth communities to deforestation	6
Windthrows promote higher diversity of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera: Passalidae) in a Central Amazon forest	6
Effect of forest disturbance on ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) diversity in a Mexican tropical dry forest canopy	6
Horizontal and vertical variation in the structure of fruit‐feeding butterfly (Nymphalidae) assemblages in the Brazilian Cerrado	6
Influence of human land use and invasive species on beta diversity of tropical ant assemblages	6
Landscape woody features, local management and vegetation composition shape moth communities in extensively managed grasslands	5
Physical and biotic factors driving the diversity of spider assemblages in tree hollows of MediterraneanQuercusforests	5
Species traits influence the process of biodiversity inventorying: a case study using the British butterfly database	5
Dry grassland within the urban matrix acts as favourable habitat for different pollinators including endangered species	5
The contrasting response of cavity‐nesting bees, wasps and their natural enemies to biodiversity conservation measures	5
Bee functional traits and their relationship to pollination services depend on many factors: A meta‐regression analysis	5
High diversity and strong variation in host specificity of seed parasitic acorn weevils	5
Temporal complementarity in activity‐density of two arthropod macro‐detritivore taxa	5
Limestone quarries are the most important refuge for a formerly widespread grassland butterfly	5
Responses of ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages to stand characteristics and landscape structure in riparian poplar forests	5
Modelling the scope to conserve an endemic‐rich mountain butterfly taxon in a changing climate	5
Predicting the South American invasion pathways of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum Linnaeus 1761 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) using species distribution models	5
When a threatened species becomes a threat: a key to reading the Habitats Directive based on occurrence and distribution of Cerambyx cerdo L. in Mediterranean urban and peri‐urban areas	5
Identifying key forage plants to support wild bee diversity and a species at risk in the Prairie Pothole Region	5
Ecological network for species dependent on ancient broadleaf trees using Osmoderma barnabita as a model species: a new approach	4
The spatial distribution of insect communities of a mountaintop forest archipelago is not correlated with landscape structure: A multitaxa approach	4
Rapid conservation evidence for the impact of sheep grazing on a threatened digger wasp	4
Towards reliable estimates of abundance trends using automated non‐lethal moth traps	4
Accounting for dispersal and intraspecific variation in forecasts of species distribution under climate change	4
DNA metabarcoding and morphological identification reveal similar richness, taxonomic composition and body size patterns among flying insect communities	4
Effect of landscape structure depends on habitat type in shaping spider communities of a natural mosaic of Eurasian forest‐steppe	4
A dark side of conservation biology: Protected areas fail in representing subterranean biodiversity	4
Butterfly diversity, richness, and density patterns in Sierra Nevada (SE Spain): Conservation implications under a global change scenario	4
Rejuvenation and restoration measures foster specialised and threatened carabid beetle species in montane heathland ecosystems	4
Towards a functional classification of poorly known tropical insects: The case of rhinoceros beetles (Coleoptera, Dynastinae) in Panama	4
Insect biomass shows a stronger decrease than species richness along urban gradients	4
Landscape type affects the functional diversity of carabid beetles in agricultural landscapes	4
Caterpillar loss through grassland harvest differs between two related butterfly species of conservation concern	4
Nest aggregations of wild bees and apoid wasps in urban pavements: A ‘street life’ to be promoted in urban planning	4
A comparison of summer, fall and winter estimates of monarch population size before and after milkweed eradication from crop fields in North America	4
Tropical savanna conversion to exotic pastures negatively affects taxonomic and functional diversity of dung beetle assemblages, but not dung removal	4
Bumble bee communities in power‐line clearings: Effects of experimental management practices	4
Random year intercepts in mixed models help to assess uncertainties in insect population trends	3
Thermal tolerance and vulnerability to climate change in subterranean species: a case study using an Iberian endemic pseudoscorpion	3
DNA barcoding resolves quantitative multi‐trophic interaction networks and reveals pest species in trap nests	3
Trait‐based effects of plant invasion on floral resources, hoverflies and bees	3
Connectivity within isolation: dispersal, population genetics, and conservation of the rarest European damselfly	3
Is being green what matters? Functional diversity of cavity‐nesting bees and wasps and their interaction networks with parasites in different reforestation types in Amazonia	3
Organic winter cereals benefit bumblebee colonies in agricultural landscapes with mass‐flowering crops	3
Tens of thousands of migrating hoverflies found dead on a strandline in the South of France	3
What structures diurnal visitation rates to flowering trees in an Afrotropical lowland rainforest understory?	3
Diversity of bumble bees and butterflies in Minnesota roadsides depends on floral diversity and abundance but not floral native status	3
Motorway proximity affects spatial dynamics of orthopteran assemblages in a grassland ecosystem	3
Restoring declining species through translocations: A test case using flightless grasshoppers in an urban setting	3
Effects of temperature on monarch caterpillar pigment variation in nature	3
Does monitoring of saproxylic beetles benefit from inclusion of larvae?	3
Butterfly biodiversity increases with prairie strips and conservation management in row crop agriculture	3
Functional traits drive the fate of Orthoptera in urban areas	3
Mistletoe infection changes arthropod community on its cactus host through indirect effects	3
Effects of plant traits on caterpillar communities depend on host specialisation	3
Change in monarch winter abundance over the past decade: A Red List perspective	3
Elevated pan traps optimise the sampling of bees, including when the availability of floral resources is high	3
High genetic drift in endangered northern peripheral populations of the Behr's hairstreak butterfly (Satyrium behrii)	3
The last hideout: Abundance patterns of the not‐quite‐yet extinct mayfly Prosopistoma pennigerum in the Albanian Vjosa River network	3
Consistent imprints of elevation, soil temperature and moisture on plant and arthropod communities across two subarctic landscapes	2
Mosaic landscapes provide conservation pockets for an endangered species: Colias myrmidone in Romania	2
Arthropod populations in a sub‐arctic environment facing climate change over a half‐century: variability but no general trend	2
The tragedy of the common? A comparative population genomic study of two bumblebee species	2
Species‐specific functional traits rather than phylogenetic relatedness better predict future range‐shift responses of odonates	2
A comparison between time‐constrained counts and line transects as methods to estimate butterfly diversity and monitor populations in tropical habitats	2
Genetic assessment and climate modelling of the Iberian specialist butterfly Euchloe bazae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)	2
Can immature stages be ignored in studies of forest leaf litter arthropod diversity? A test using Oxford Nanopore DNA barcoding	2
Island spider origins show complex vertical stratification patterns in Macaronesia	2

Urbanisation drives inter‐ and intraspecific variation in flight‐related morphological traits of aquatic insects at different landscape scales	2
Ecological trends in moth communities (Geometridae, Lepidoptera) along a complete rainforest elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea	2
Resource gaps pose the greatest threat for bumblebees during the colony establishment phase	2
Insect ecology and conservation in urban areas: An overview of knowledge and needs	2
Contrasting results of multiple species delimitation approaches cause uncertainty in synecological studies: A case study on Sri Lankan chafers	2
Butterfly community composition within a tropical urban landscape is influenced by habitat type and temperature	2
Environmental correlates of aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity in garden ponds: Implications for pond management	2
Genomic tools for comparative conservation genetics among three recently diverged stag beetles (Lucanus, Lucanidae)	2
Similar temporal patterns in insect richness, abundance and biomass across major habitat types	2
First multitaxon assessment of arthropod responses to urbanisation in a widely distributed native and ruderal plant of Brazil	2
Associations between a range‐shifting damselfly (Erythromma viridulum) and the UK's resident Odonata suggest habitat sharing is more important than antagonism	2
Age class of alien tree stands retained for mammal protection have differential effects on flower‐visiting insect assemblages	2
Cryptic diversity of Oxythyrea flower chafers and its implication for conservation of non‐forest biotopes in the Balkans	2
Revealing suitable micro‐ and macrohabitat characteristics to save the critically endangered Chilean saproxylic beetle Sclerostomulus nitidus (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)	2
Species turnover increases ant–trophobiont interaction dissimilarities along a geographical gradient	2
Land‐use change in the Amazon decreases ant diversity but increases ant‐mediated predation	2
Drivers of compositional turnover in narrow‐ranged and widespread dragonflies and damselflies in Africa	2
Lack of local adaptation of feeding and calling behaviours by Yponomeuta cagnagellus moths in response to artificial light at night	2
Native tree species richness enhances matrix functionality for soil arthropods in tropical plantation landscapes: A case study from the Himalayas	2
Small grassland fragments and connectivity support high arthropod functional diversity in highly modified landscapes	2
Contrasted propensity for waterborne and airborne dispersal between two closely related semi‐aquatic spider species	2
South European mountain butterflies at a high risk from land abandonment and amplified effects of climate change	2
Abundance, distribution and substrate association of Hong Kong stag beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) in secondary forests	2