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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Opinion: Eight simple actions that individuals can take to save insects from global declines.

Akito Y Kawahara, Lawrence E Reeves, Jesse R Barber, Scott H Black

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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 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Three decades of declines restructure butterfly communities in the Midwestern United States.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. Defining the decline: a glossary relevant to insect decline.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2025
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  11. Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2024
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  16. Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  17. A window to the world of global insect declines: Moth biodiversity trends are complex and heterogeneous.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Akito Y KawaharaFlorida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611; kawahara@flmnh.ufl.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3724-4610
Lawrence E ReevesEntomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32608.ORCID 0000-0003-3968-8124
Jesse R BarberDepartment of Biology, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725.ORCID 0000-0003-3084-2973
Scott H BlackThe Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, OR 97232.ORCID 0000-0001-7836-5470

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Conservation of Natural ResourcesInsectaAnimalsEcosystemEnvironmental PollutionLightingPlants

Identifiers

PMID33431563
PMCPMC7812750

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