ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
To us insectometers, it is clear that insect decline in our Costa Rican tropics is real, so let's be kind to the survivors.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 119 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Flight of the dragons: a global review of migration in Odonata.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Heat tolerance decreases and cold tolerance increases with elevation for a species-rich insect family on a tropical volcano.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Constructing a lower-bound estimate of the global number of insect species on a hyperdiverse empirical foundation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Moth Communities Reveal High Stability Despite Ongoing Compositional Shifts Over Five Years Following Hurricane Disturbance.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Multiple Stressor Effects of a Neonicotinoid, Heatwaves, and Elevated Temperatures on Aquatic Insect Emergence.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Edible caterpillars and their host plants: ethnobotanical insights in Kwilu, Democratic Republic of Congo.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2025Article
- Latitude shapes diel patterns in insect biodiversity.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Host-Parasitoid Phenology, Distribution, and Biological Control under Climate Change.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Breakdown in seasonal dynamics of subtropical ant communities with land-cover change.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Diversified farms bolster forest-bird populations despite ongoing declines in tropical forests.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The Present and Future of Insect Biodiversity Conservation in the Neotropics: Policy Gaps and Recommendations.Neotropical entomology · 2023Review
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- Wet and dry extremes reduce arthropod biomass independently of leaf phenology in the wet tropics.Global change biology · 2023Article
- Amphibian diversity across three adjacent ecosystems in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica.PeerJ · 2023Article
- Global insect decline is the result of wilful political failure: A battle plan for entomology.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Moth declines are most severe in broadleaf woodlands despite a net gain in habitat availability.Insect conservation and diversity · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
We have been field observers of tropical insects on four continents and, since 1978, intense observers of caterpillars, their parasites, and their associates in the 1,260 km
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