ArticleBiology letters2022
Insect decline in Brazil: an appraisal of current evidence.
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- LepEU: A Consortium to Study the Population Genomics of Butterflies and Moths Across Europe.Evolutionary applications · 2026Article
- Pollinator-Friendly Policies in Brazil: History and Future Directions.Neotropical entomology · 2026Review
- Asynchronous declines of native and exotic insect predators reduce pest suppression potential in agriculture.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Froth, Fields, and Future Directions: Scientometric and Integrative Review of the Recent Latin American Cercopidae Literature.Neotropical entomology · 2025Review
- Systematic Continental Scale Monitoring by Weather Surveillance Radar Shows Fewer Insects Above Warming Landscapes in the United States.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Circulation of bee-infecting viruses in Brazil: a call for action.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2024Review
- Insect-microbe interactions and their influence on organisms and ecosystems.Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
- Key tropical crops at risk from pollinator loss due to climate change and land use.Science advances · 2023Article
- The Present and Future of Insect Biodiversity Conservation in the Neotropics: Policy Gaps and Recommendations.Neotropical entomology · 2023Review
- Less overall, but more of the same: drivers of insect population trends lead to community homogenization.Biology letters · 2023Article
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Abstract
Recent reviews of data on worldwide insect decline include almost no information on Brazil. We gathered evidence from literature searches and a survey sent to researchers, to which 96 replied and 56 provided information and publications. We present 75 instances of trends recorded over an average span of 11 years for aquatic and 22 years for terrestrial insects. These include time-replicated samples and expert opinion based on long-term local collections. Most terrestrial data are for butterflies, bees and scarab beetles. Aquatic studies include several insect orders, usually sorted to genus or family. Terrestrial insects showed significantly more cases of declines than increases, both in abundance (17 : 3) and in diversity (11 : 1). In aquatic cases, no tendency was detected in abundance (2 : 2) or diversity (3 : 4), not counting cases with no trend. Differences in these results among habitats may be due to the shorter span and less change in environmental conditions in the aquatic surveys, which included sites already degraded before sampling. We offer guidelines for future long-term assessments, including resampling of legacy collection sites.
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