OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Insect Conservation and Diversity is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward	254
Is light pollution driving moth population declines? A review of causal mechanisms across the life cycle	81
Are insects declining and at what rate? An analysis of standardised, systematic catches of aphid and moth abundances across Great Britain	75
Wild bee declines linked to plant‐pollinator network changes and plant species introductions	54
Field margin floral enhancements increase pollinator diversity at the field edge but show no consistent spillover into the crop field: a meta‐analysis	52
Increase of insular exotic arthropod diversity is a fundamental dimension of the current biodiversity crisis	43
A global review of determinants of native bee assemblages in urbanised landscapes	39
Light pollution is the fastest growing potential threat to firefly conservation in the Atlantic Forest hotspot	32
Spotlight on insects: trends, threats and conservation challenges	32
Diversity and conservation of saproxylic beetles in 42 European tree species: an experimental approach using early successional stages of branches	28
Accounting for year effects and sampling error in temporal analyses of invertebrate population and biodiversity change: a comment on Seibold et al. 2019	28
Environmental drivers of taxonomic and functional diversity of ant communities in a tropical mountain	28
Assessing long‐term effects of artificial light at night on insects: what is missing and how to get there	28
Limited understanding of bushfire impacts on Australian invertebrates	27
Glowing, glowing, gone? Monitoring long‐term trends in glow‐worm numbers in south‐east England	25
Intensive monitoring for bees in North America: indispensable or improvident?	25
Moths are strongly attracted to ultraviolet and blue radiation	24
Temperature drives variation in flying insect biomass across a German malaise trap network	24
Reducing the blue spectrum of artificial light at night minimises insect attraction in a tropical lowland forest	23
What level of native beetle diversity can be supported by forestry plantations? A global synthesis	22
Long‐term monitoring reveals decreasing water beetle diversity, loss of specialists and community shifts over the past 28 years	21
Patterns of Vespa velutina invasion in Portugal using crowdsourced data	20
A revised Red List of British butterflies	20
Narrow‐spectrum artificial light silences female fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)	20
The isolated Erebia pandrose Apennine population is genetically unique and endangered by climate change	18

Dealing with host and food searching in a diurnal parasitoid: consequences of light at night at intra‐ and trans‐generational levels	18
Diversity, ecology, distribution and biogeography of Diplura	16
Aphidophagous ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and climate change: a review	16
Out of sight, out of mind: public and research interest in insects is negatively correlated with their conservation status	16
Assessing zinc tolerance in two butterfly species: consequences for conservation in polluted environments	16
Marketing insects: can exploiting a commercial framework help promote undervalued insect species?	15
Predicting the distributions of regional endemic dragonflies using a combined model approach	15
Habitat preferences of the endangered diving beetle Graphoderus bilineatus: implications for conservation management	14
Thug life: bramble (Rubus fruticosus L. agg.) is a valuable foraging resource for honeybees and diverse flower‐visiting insects	14
Saproxylic beetles trace deadwood and differentiate between deadwood niches before their arrival on potential hosts	14
One‐size does not fit all: at‐risk bumble bee habitat management requires species‐specific local and landscape considerations	14
Bat–bat fly interactions in Central Panama: host traits relate to modularity in a highly specialised network	13
Frequent prescribed fires favour ground‐nesting bees in southeastern U.S. forests	13
A century of social wasp occupancy trends from natural history collections: spatiotemporal resolutions have little effect on model performance	13
Crop visitation by wild bees declines over an 8‐year time series: A dramatic trend, or just dramatic between‐year variation?	13
Abandonment of traditional land use and climate change threaten the survival of an endangered relict butterfly species	12
Semantics of the insect decline narrative: recommendations for communicating insect conservation to peer and public audiences	12
Forest hoverfly community collapse: Abundance and species richness drop over four decades	12
Millipedes step up: species extend their upper elevational limit in the Alps in response to climate warming	12
Fallows and permanent grasslands conserve the species composition and functional diversity of carabid beetles and linyphiid spiders in agricultural landscapes	12
Multiple methods of assessing nectar foraging conditions indicate peak foraging difficulty in late season	12
Butterfly communities track climatic variation over space but not time in the Iberian Peninsula	12
Monitoring and conservation of cryophilous biodiversity: concerns when working with insect populations in vanishing glacial habitats	12
Anthropogenic‐driven transformations of dragonfly (Insecta: Odonata) communities of low elevation mountain wetlands during the last century	11
Inventorying and monitoring crop pollinating bees: Evaluating the effectiveness of common sampling methods	11
Farming system and soil management affect butterfly diversity in sloping olive groves	11
Impacts of artificial lighting at night on insect conservation	11
A worthy conservation target? Revising the status of the rarest bumblebee of Europe	11
Grazing impacts on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) abundance and diversity on semi‐natural grassland	10
Structure and robustness of the Neotropical ant‐gardens network under climate change	10
The risk of rediscovery: fast population decline of the localized endemic Chilean stag beetle Sclerostomulus nitidus (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) suggests trade as a threat	10
Native bee communities vary across three prairie ecoregions due to land use, climate, sampling method and bee life history traits	10
Flattening the curve: approaching complete sampling for diverse beetle communities	10
Temperature and not landscape composition shapes wild bee communities in an urban environment	10
Quick recovery of a threatened butterfly in well‐connected patches following an extreme drought	10
The positive association between natural vegetation, native coccinellids and functional diversity of aphidophagous coccinellid communities in alfalfa	10
Recovery of dung beetle biodiversity and traits in a regenerating rainforest: a case study from Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula	10
A comparison of different Malaise trap types	10
Illegalities in the online trade of stingless bees in Brazil	10
Spectral optimization of beacon lights for the protection of night‐swarming mayflies	10
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	9
Effects of climate change on the distribution of threatened invertebrates in a Mediterranean hotspot	9
Latitudinal patterns in tachinid parasitoid diversity (Diptera: Tachinidae): a review of the evidence	9
Rapid assessment of the three‐dimensional distribution of dominant arboreal ants in tropical forests	9
Toxicity of ivermectin residues in aged farmyard manure to terrestrial and freshwater invertebrates	9
The role of a rosette‐shaped plant (Eryngium horridum, Apiaceae) on grassland spiders along a grazing intensity gradient	8
Are patterns of sampling effort and completeness of inventories congruent? A test using databases for five insect taxa in the Iberian Peninsula	8
From pastures to forests: Changes in Mediterranean wild bee communities after rural land abandonment	8
Insights from regional and short‐term biodiversity monitoring datasets are valuable: a reply to Daskalova et al. 2021	8
Grand challenges in entomology: Priorities for action in the coming decades	8

A sunny spot: habitat management through vegetation cuts increases oviposition in abandoned fields in an endemic Mediterranean butterfly	8
Moth declines are most severe in broadleaf woodlands despite a net gain in habitat availability	7
Biology and conservation of the European stag beetle: recent advances and lessons learned	7
Decrease in β‐diversity, but not in α‐diversity, of ants in intensively managed coffee plantations	7
Climate and ice in the last glacial maximum explain patterns of isolation by distance inferred for alpine grasshoppers	7
Wild bee visitors and their association with sown and unsown floral resources in reconstructed pollinator habitats within an agriculture landscape	6
Horizontal and vertical variation in the structure of fruit‐feeding butterfly (Nymphalidae) assemblages in the Brazilian Cerrado	6
Quantity and specialisation matter: Effects of quantitative and qualitative variation in willow chemistry on resource preference in leaf‐chewing insects	6
Community changes in odonate monitoring: why are long‐term studies so relevant?	6
Dispersal constraints on the potential distribution of cold‐adapted stag beetles (genus Platycerus) in Japan and the implications of climate change	6
Native and agricultural grassland use by stable and declining bumble bees in Midwestern North America	6
Non‐native ants drive dramatic declines in animal community diversity: A meta‐analysis	6
Canopy sampling reveals hidden potential value of woodland trees for wild bee assemblages	6
Notes from rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis Cresson) nest observations	6
A novel farmland wildflower seed mix attracts a greater abundance and richness of pollinating insects than standard mixes	6
A comparison of wild bee communities in sown flower strips and semi‐natural habitats: A pollination network approach	6
What DNA barcodes reveal: microhabitat preference, hunting strategy and dispersal ability drive genetic variation across Iberian spider species	6
Linear habitats across a range of farming intensities contribute differently to dipteran abundance and diversity	6
Ecological drivers of Odonata beta diversity in arid and semi‐arid regions of the Central Plateau of Iran	6
Open‐canopy ponds benefit diurnal pollinator communities in an agricultural landscape: implications for farmland pond management	6
The use of sentinel logs to assess host shifts in early beetle colonisers of deadwood under climate‐ and forestry‐induced tree species substitutions	6
Grassland fallows as key for successful insect conservation	6
Speciation of the cold‐adapted scorpionfly Cerapanorpa brevicornis (Mecoptera: Panorpidae) via interglacial refugia	6