Nature is under siege. In the last 10,000 y the human population has grown from 1 million to
7.8 billion. Much of Earth's arable lands are already in agriculture (1), millions of acres of …

Major declines in insect biomass and diversity, reviewed here, have become obvious and
well documented since the end of World War II. Here, we conclude that the spread and …

Highlights•Global change includes multiple overlapping and interacting drivers.•These
drivers can have complex and counterintuitive effects on insects.•Global change reorganizes …

Recently reported insect declines have raised both political and social concern. Although
the declines have been attributed to land use and climate change, supporting evidence …

Little is known about (i) how numbers and concentrations of airborne pesticide residues are
influenced by land use, interactions with meteorological parameters, or by substance …

Agri‐environment schemes (AES) serve to counteract the ongoing decline of farmland bird
populations, but their success remains controversial. We conducted a meta‐analysis to …

Regular reassessment of extinction risk is critical to prioritise conservation action during the
current period of rapid, anthropogenic biodiversity change. Butterflies are a flagship group …

Recently, reports of insect declines prompted concerns with respect to the state of insects at
a global level. Here, we present the results of longer‐term insect monitoring from two …

Recent climate and land‐use changes are having substantial impacts on biodiversity,
including population declines, range shifts, and changes in community composition …

Climate change and habitat loss present serious threats to nature. Yet, due to a lack of
historical land-use data, the potential for land-use change and baseline land-use conditions …