40 years of conservation data: Researchers show population trends of native insects
Based on a media release from the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Munich/Leipzig. Heat-loving insect species in Germany are benefiting from global warming. The trends of different insect groups vary considerably. While the populations of butterflies and grasshoppers decreased more frequently than they increased, dragonflies showed predominantly positive trends. This is the conclusion of a new study led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. In order to close significant data gaps, the research team evaluated an extensive collection of previously little-used data on over 200 insect species in Bavaria since 1980. The study was published in Global Change Biology.
German Research Foundation (DFG) for funding the sMon working group (Trend analysis of biodiversity data in Germany) through the iDiv (DFG FZT 118, 202548816).
