Analysis of the world’s longest-running insect monitoring programme finds little evidence to support steep declines in biomass across the United Kingdom over the past 50 years. Moth biomass showed a net increase, but a gradual post-1982 decline was found in certain land uses and for some moth families.
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Saunders, M.E. Ups and downs of insect populations. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 1616–1617 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1038-4
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