Insects at risk
(5 статей)
The cover shows a green leafhopper (Cicadella viridis). Five papers in this week’s issue explore the environmental challenges now facing insect populations, with climate change emerging as a key factor whose influence has potentially been underestimated.
Jörg Müller and colleagues analyse 27 years of insect biomass data to reveal that weather anomalies associated with climate change can affect insect biomass in the temperate zone.
In a second paper, Melanie Kazenel and co-workers find that warming caused by climate change could pose a threat to bee diversity in the United States, and a paper by Guillaume Ghisbain and colleagues predicts significant reduction in suitable habitat for European bumblebee species owing to human-induced changes to the environment, including climate change.
Another human effect is highlighted in a paper by Charlie Nicholson and co-workers, which looks at the negative effects of pesticide use on bumblebees in Europe.
And a fifth paper by Roel van Klink and colleagues probes how declines in formerly abundant species can drive insect loss.
https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/628/issues/8007
(5 статей)
The cover shows a green leafhopper (Cicadella viridis). Five papers in this week’s issue explore the environmental challenges now facing insect populations, with climate change emerging as a key factor whose influence has potentially been underestimated.
Jörg Müller and colleagues analyse 27 years of insect biomass data to reveal that weather anomalies associated with climate change can affect insect biomass in the temperate zone.
In a second paper, Melanie Kazenel and co-workers find that warming caused by climate change could pose a threat to bee diversity in the United States, and a paper by Guillaume Ghisbain and colleagues predicts significant reduction in suitable habitat for European bumblebee species owing to human-induced changes to the environment, including climate change.
Another human effect is highlighted in a paper by Charlie Nicholson and co-workers, which looks at the negative effects of pesticide use on bumblebees in Europe.
And a fifth paper by Roel van Klink and colleagues probes how declines in formerly abundant species can drive insect loss.
https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/628/issues/8007
