@article{UhlerRedlichZhangetal.2021,
  author    = {Uhler, Johannes and Redlich, Sarah and Zhang, Jie and Hothorn, Torsten and Tobisch, Cynthia and Ewald, J{\"o}rg and Thorn, Simon and Seibold, Sebastian and Mitesser, Oliver and Morin{\`e}re, J{\´e}r{\^o}me and Bozicevic, Vedran and Benjamin, Caryl S. and Englmeier, Jana and Fricke, Ute and Ganuza, Cristina and Haensel, Maria and Riebl, Rebekka and Rojas-Botero, Sandra and Rummler, Thomas and Uphus, Lars and Schmidt, Stefan and Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf and M{\"u}ller, J{\"o}rg},
  title     = {Relationships of insect biomass and richness with land use along a climate gradient},
  series = {Nature Communications},
  volume    = {12},
  journal   = {Nature Communications},
  number    = {1},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41467-021-26181-3},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-265058},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Recently reported insect declines have raised both political and social concern. Although the declines have been attributed to land use and climate change, supporting evidence suffers from low taxonomic resolution, short time series, a focus on local scales, and the collinearity of the identified drivers. In this study, we conducted a systematic assessment of insect populations in southern Germany, which showed that differences in insect biomass and richness are highly context dependent. We found the largest difference in biomass between semi-natural and urban environments (-42\%), whereas differences in total richness (-29\%) and the richness of threatened species (-56\%) were largest from semi-natural to agricultural environments. These results point to urbanization and agriculture as major drivers of decline. We also found that richness and biomass increase monotonously with increasing temperature, independent of habitat. The contrasting patterns of insect biomass and richness question the use of these indicators as mutual surrogates. Our study provides support for the implementation of more comprehensive measures aimed at habitat restoration in order to halt insect declines.},
  language  = {en}
}