Insect Conservation and Diversity

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Local floral abundance influences bumble bee occupancy more than urban‐agricultural landscape context	52
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Scorpion assemblages in threatened Brazilian forests: The role of environmental factors in explaining beta‐diversity patterns	37
Implementing a novel approach to long‐term monitoring of butterfly communities in the Neotropics	34
Ecological communities in white‐sand Amazonian rainforests are sensitive to deforestation—A dung beetle case	33
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Consistent imprints of elevation, soil temperature and moisture on plant and arthropod communities across two subarctic landscapes	29
Species traits to guide moth conservation in anthropogenic regions: A multi‐species approach using distribution trends in Flanders (northern Belgium)	29
A colourful world with a dark future: Unregulated trade as an emerging threat for woodlice (Isopoda: Oniscidea) of Spain	27
eDNA metabarcoding of archived leaf samples reveals arthropod diversity decline in South Korean but not in German forest ecosystems	24
Moth declines are most severe in broadleaf woodlands despite a net gain in habitat availability	23
Thriving in the heat: How high temperatures and habitat disturbance shape odonate taxonomic and functional diversity in the tropics	21
Effects of climate change on the distribution of threatened invertebrates in a Mediterranean hotspot	21
Identifying key forage plants to support wild bee diversity and a species at risk in the Prairie Pothole Region	21
Reaching new heights: Arboreal ant diversity in a North American temperate forest ecosystem	20
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Intraspecific trait variation of carrion beetle species and communities across elevations	19
Towards reliable estimates of abundance trends using automated non‐lethal moth traps	19
Evolutionary genomics analysis reveals a unique lineage of Megachile pruina found in an isolated population in Bermuda	19
A novel low‐cost effective trap to capture sarcosaprophagous Diptera alive	19
Phylogeography of the Iberian endemic butterfly Erebia palarica Chapman, 1905 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): An integrative approach	19
Long‐distance movements, large population sizes and density‐dependent dispersal in three threatened butterfly species	18
Gaps and spatial trends in the accurate data available on mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) in Brazil: Inventory completeness and priority areas	18

Conservation implications of a genomic‐based taxonomy for threatened allopatric Agriades butterflies	18
Translocation of arthropods with Sphagnum biomass during the establishment of a Sphagnum cultivation site	18
High species turnover but functional stability in tropical ground‐dwelling ant assemblages over 12 years of monitoring in Central Amazonia	17
Solitary oil‐collecting bee in cities: Habitat suitability and lack of population structuring in Centris analis	17
Intensity and colour of artificial light at night affect insect attraction in a taxon‐dependent manner	16
Catch effectiveness, complementarity and costs of five sampling techniques for flying insects across different land use types	15
Temperature drives variation in flying insect biomass across a German malaise trap network	15
Does monitoring of saproxylic beetles benefit from inclusion of larvae?	15
Illegalities in the online trade of stingless bees in Brazil	15
Rapid conservation evidence for the impact of sheep grazing on a threatened digger wasp	14
Predicting the South American invasion pathways of the mayfly Cloeon dipterum Linnaeus 1761 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) using species distribution models	13
Identifying key threats to a refugial population of an endangered Hawaiian moth	13
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Body size and abundance patterns of male orchid bees in a fragmented Neotropical landscape	12
Monitoring spatiotemporal patterns in the genetic diversity of a European butterfly species	11
High mortality of beetle migrants along the Eastern Mediterranean Flyway	11
Woody encroachment affects multiple dimensions of ant diversity in a neotropical savanna	10
Urbanisation drives inter‐ and intraspecific variation in flight‐related morphological traits of aquatic insects at different landscape scales	10
Genetic connectivity is maintained in two insect pollinators across a human‐altered landscape	10
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Seasonal and spatial variation of stream macroinvertebrate taxonomic and functional diversity across three boreal regions	10
Modelling the scope to conserve an endemic‐rich mountain butterfly taxon in a changing climate	10
Scientists' warning on the need for greater inclusion of dragonflies in global conservation	10
Myrmecophily is not a risk factor for long‐term occupancy trends of central European Lycaenidae butterflies	10
Reviving of Coenonympha oedippus: A comprehensive approach to the reintroduction of an endangered European butterfly	10
Evidence of reproduction in the wild demonstrates initial success for reintroducing a Critically Endangered saproxylic hoverfly to a Scottish forest ecosystem	10
Butterfly community composition within a tropical urban landscape is influenced by habitat type and temperature	9
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It is not a mere piece of the mainland: Fluvial islands contribute to regional spider diversity in a seasonally flooded Amazonian archipelago	9
The role of seasonality and disturbance in bee–plant interactions in semi‐arid communities of the southern Chihuahuan desert	9
Back to the future: Climate change effects on habitat suitability of Parnassius apollo throughout the Quaternary glacial cycles	9
Trophic level and specialization moderate effects of habitat loss and landscape diversity on cavity‐nesting bees, wasps and their parasitoids	9
Fallows and permanent grasslands conserve the species composition and functional diversity of carabid beetles and linyphiid spiders in agricultural landscapes	9
Patch‐burn management affects grassland butterfly communities in cattle‐grazed rangelands	9
Similar temporal patterns in insect richness, abundance and biomass across major habitat types	9
Do carabids struggle to recolonize restored grasslands in the fragmented landscapes of Northern Belgium?	9
Strong genetic differentiation between fragmented alpine bush‐cricket populations demands preservation of evolutionary significant units	8
Land‐use change in the Amazon decreases ant diversity but increases ant‐mediated predation	8
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Depicting environmental gradients from Malaise trap samples: Is ethanol‐basedDNAmetabarcoding enough?	8
Macroinvertebrate communities in high mountain desert wetlands: Building biological indexes to address the vulnerability of species and communities	8
Grassland fallows as key for successful insect conservation	8
A multidimensional study on population size, deadwood relationship and allometric variation of Lucanus cervus through citizen science	8
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Hair‐based minimally invasive barcoding of bumblebees	8
Higher bee species richness in conservation areas compared with non‐conservation areas in south‐west Germany	7
Variation in pollen load composition carried by wild bee species in native and nearby agricultural environments in south‐eastern Australia	7
Effects of short‐term managed honey bee deployment in a native ecosystem on wild bee foraging and plant–pollinator networks	7
DNA metabarcoding and morphological identification reveal similar richness, taxonomic composition and body size patterns among flying insect communities	7
Limestone quarries are the most important refuge for a formerly widespread grassland butterfly	7

Monitoring and conservation of cryophilous biodiversity: concerns when working with insect populations in vanishing glacial habitats	7
Contrasting results of multiple species delimitation approaches cause uncertainty in synecological studies: A case study on Sri Lankan chafers	7
Local and landscape features of urban fragments determine the occurrence of stingless bees	7
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Pollinators differentially respond to local and landscape grassland features	7
A novel farmland wildflower seed mix attracts a greater abundance and richness of pollinating insects than standard mixes	7
Seasonality of native and non‐native flowers does not influence butterfly nectar foraging decisions in a semi‐urban meadow habitat	7
Associations between soil characteristics and ground‐nesting bees on farms	6
Vertical stratification of leaf physical traits exerts bottom–up pressures on insect herbivory in a sugar maple temperate forest	6
Idiosyncratic trends of woodland invertebrate biodiversity in Britain over 45 years	6
Responses of the hyper‐diverse community of canopy‐dwelling Hymenoptera to oak decline	6
Large uncertainty in trait responses across insects among overall declines in a subtropical city	6
Strong negative effects of recent wildfires on two endemic Macaronesian bush‐crickets	6
Species‐ and trait‐based responses of carabids to rotation and closer‐to‐nature forestry in a temperate forest under changing climate	6
Dry grasslands in urban areas can harbour arthropod species of local conservation concern and should be prioritised for biodiversity‐friendly mowing regimes	6
Cryptic diversity of Oxythyrea flower chafers and its implication for conservation of non‐forest biotopes in the Balkans	6
Saproxylic beetles trace deadwood and differentiate between deadwood niches before their arrival on potential hosts	6
Phylogeography, demographic history and distribution modelling of a funnel‐web wolf spider from southern South American grasslands: Implications for conservation strategies	6
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Canopy sampling reveals hidden potential value of woodland trees for wild bee assemblages	6
Correction to: Changes in predator biomass may mask the negative effects of neonicotinoids on primary consumers in field settings	6
Insect community composition varies between temperate and tropical regions but functional structure remains conserved	5
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The role of landscape factors in shaping bumble bee pathogen loads across regions of the eastern Nearctic	5
Wild bee visitors and their association with sown and unsown floral resources in reconstructed pollinator habitats within an agriculture landscape	5
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Pollinators respond positively to urban green space enhancements using wild and ornamental flowers	5
Butterfly diversity, richness, and density patterns in Sierra Nevada (SE Spain): Conservation implications under a global change scenario	5
Fine‐scale bee species distribution models: Hotspots of richness and endemism in South Africa with species‐area comparisons	5
Grazing impacts on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) abundance and diversity on semi‐natural grassland	5
Transect walks and malaise traps differ in temperature sensitivity but reveal consistent drivers of pollinator richness	4
Leveraging historical field notebooks to uncover continental‐scale patterns in the diversity of Australian grasshoppers	4
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Urban intensity gradients shape community structure, life‐history traits and performance in a multitrophic system	4
Grazing and mowing practices drive complex dynamics in the structure of butterfly communities in semi‐natural grasslands	4
Complex temporal trends in biomass and abundance of Diptera communities driven by the impact of agricultural intensity	4
The impact of land use on the acoustic behaviour of cicadas in the Chocó lowland tropical forest of Ecuador	4
Environmental correlates of aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity in garden ponds: Implications for pond management	4
Drivers of compositional turnover in narrow‐ranged and widespread dragonflies and damselflies in Africa	4
Climatic stability and species turnover as potential drivers of latitudinal diversity gradients in Chilean wild bees	4
Competition among invasive and endemic carrion fly species in theGalapagos Islandswith implications for biological control risk assessment	4
Flowering areas enhance insect pollinators and biological control agents in wheat intensive agro‐ecosystems	4
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Chorotypes, zones for the conservation of Scarabaeoidea, and representativity in protected areas of El Salvador	4
Effect of landscape structure depends on habitat type in shaping spider communities of a natural mosaic of Eurasian forest‐steppe	4
Lack of local adaptation of feeding and calling behaviours by Yponomeuta cagnagellus moths in response to artificial light at night	4
Shade tree isolation in pastures modulates diversity of epiphyte‐dwelling spiders: The role of epiphyte biomass and species dispersal capacity	4
Fire frequency shapes diversity in multi‐guild communities through direct and indirect pathways	4
Artificial trap‐nests: A useful tool to assess ants and myrmecophiles diversity	4
Landscape type affects the functional diversity of carabid beetles in agricultural landscapes	4
Contrasting patterns of habitat use in a threatened carabid (Carabus intricatus) and a sympatric congener in ancient temperate rainforest	3
Trends in the Brazilians' engagement with insects on the internet	3
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Species traits may predict extinction risk of Azorean endemic arthropods	3
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Ecologically sustainable retention forestry supports spider biodiversity in the Lower Morava UNESCO Biosphere Reserve	3
Ecological and life‐history traits predict temporal trends in biomass of boreal moths	3
Floral richness drives pollinator diversity after fire in upland forests and meadows of the Sierra Nevada, California	3
Outer bounds: Forest edges emulate vertical strata as a habitat filter for butterfly assemblages	3
Changes in predator biomass may mask the negative effects of neonicotinoids on primary consumers in field settings	3
DNA barcoding resolves quantitative multi‐trophic interaction networks and reveals pest species in trap nests	3
The tragedy of the common? A comparative population genomic study of two bumblebee species	3
My home is your home: Nest boxes for birds and mammals provide habitats for diverse insect communities	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
Host plants and landscape predict use of roadside habitat by breeding monarchs	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
Random year intercepts in mixed models help to assess uncertainties in insect population trends	3
Insect biomass shows a stronger decrease than species richness along urban gradients	3
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Distribution patterns of orchid bees in xeric and mesic habitats on a tropical mountaintop	3
Windthrows promote higher diversity of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera: Passalidae) in a Central Amazon forest	3
Extensive mismatch between protected areas and biodiversity hotspots of Iranian Lepidoptera	3
Bark‐beetle disturbance severity only moderately alters forest affinity of arthropod communities	3
Shedding light on dark taxa in sky‐island Appalachian leaf litter: Assessing patterns of endemicity using large‐scale, voucher‐based barcoding	3
The ecological functions of dung beetles are shaped by multiple dimensions of diversity	3
Comparison of microscopy and metabarcoding to identify pollen used by the critically endangered rusty patched bumble bee, Bombus affinis	3

Disentangling how urbanisation influences moth diversity in grasslands	3
Aphidophagous ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and climate change: a review	3
‘Disease‐smart’ outcrossing can enhance individual fitness and increase survival via immune priming against pathogens: New approaches to strengthen genetic rescue efforts	3
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Contrasting effects of landscape on nest founding and colony success of bumble bees in a mixed‐crop agroecosystem	3
Landscape influence on pollinator population genetic connectivity	2
Butterfly biodiversity increases with prairie strips and conservation management in row crop agriculture	2
Butterflies at porch lights: Exploring nocturnal light visitation in butterflies using community science data from iNaturalist	2
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	2
Light and Malaise traps tell different stories about the spatial variations in arthropod biomass and method‐specific insect abundance	2
Thermal tolerance and vulnerability to climate change in subterranean species: a case study using an Iberian endemic pseudoscorpion	2
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Asymmetric responses by bees and aculeate wasps to dune stabilisation across the southern Canadian prairies	2
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Radio telemetry reveals extensive dispersal capabilities of reintroduced Great Capricorn beetles (Cerambyx cerdo) in oak habitats at their northern range limit	2
Restoring declining species through translocations: A test case using flightless grasshoppers in an urban setting	2
Change in monarch winter abundance over the past decade: A Red List perspective	2
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Genetic and phenotypic responses to habitat fragmentation in a European harvester ant	2
Non‐native ants drive dramatic declines in animal community diversity: A meta‐analysis	2
Temporal ecological processes have different seasonal influences on multiple dimensions of riverine insect diversity in China	2
Land‐use change differentially affects endemic, forest and open‐land butterflies in Madagascar	2
What structures diurnal visitation rates to flowering trees in an Afrotropical lowland rainforest understory?	2
Diversity of bumble bees and butterflies in Minnesota roadsides depends on floral diversity and abundance but not floral native status	2
Tens of thousands of migrating hoverflies found dead on a strandline in the South of France	2
Fifty years of monitoring changes in the abundance of invertebrates in the cereal ecosystem of the Sussex Downs, England	2
Intra‐ and inter‐specific variability in the temporal trends of butterfly phenology in the Northern Alps	2
Butterfly colonisation of a new chalkland road cutting	2
Nest aggregations of wild bees and apoid wasps in urban pavements: A ‘street life’ to be promoted in urban planning	2
Differential response of plant and insect pollinator communities to fragmentation in coastal dune slacks	2
Weather explains inter‐annual variability, but not the temporal decline, in insect biomass	2
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Examining elevation and thermoregulatory trait differences of endemic tropical swallowtail butterflies to assess their vulnerability to climate change	2
Temperature and tree number drive tree crown‐dwelling arthropod diversity in Brazilian semi‐arid cities	2
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Gene flow stimulates recovery of reproductive fitness in a captive bred insect	2
Mapping wing morphs of Tetrix subulata using citizen science data: Flightless groundhoppers are more prevalent in grasslands near water	2