Global Changes in Insect Populations Reflect Both Decline and Growth (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Global Changes in Insect Populations Reflect Both Decline and Growth (1 of 2)

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The colored dots represent the location and strength of decline or increase of insect abundances for each of the 166 datasets we analyzed. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 24 April issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. van Klink at German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances."

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[Credit: Van Klink <em>et al., Science</em> [2020])]

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