Assessing the magnitude and drivers of recent biodiversity losses requires informative, long-term baseline data. Here the authors reconstruct the temporal trajectories of butterflies and saproxylic be...

Insects are declining in many regions. Here the authors show that arthropod biomass losses in Jena Experiment and Biodiversity Exploratories time series are driven more by species loss than by species...

One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...

Study of continental U.S. sees stable population of bugs, but it may be missing important pieces of the puzzle

Simulating extinctions across regional food webs reveals that losing species from one habitat— especially wetlands—can cascade to others, accelerating multi-habitat food web collapse, highlighting the...

Das SRF-Wissenschaftsmagazin soll auf Ende Jahr eingestellt werden. Wir fragen nach: Warum dieser Entscheid? Und wie sind die Reaktionen aus der Wissenschaft? Zudem: Wie uns künstliche Intelligenz umg...

Die Bevölkerung kann per Umfrage mitentscheiden, wie zwei Fischarten heissen sollen, die Bárbara Calegari und ihre Kolleginnen und Kollegen entdeckt haben. Im Interview erklärt die Biologin, wo sie le...

In an agricultural field intercropping experiment, we manipulated crop diversity (0–3 crop species) and the input of agrochemicals. We found that insect biodiversity increases with crop diversity and...

Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...