Studies of insect temporal trends must account for the complex sampling histories inherent to many long-term monitoring efforts

Affiliations

¹ Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany. ellen.welti@senckenberg.de.
² Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.
³ Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, MA, USA.
⁴ Museum of Southwestern Biology, Biology Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
⁵ Department of Biology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA.
⁶ Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA.
⁷ Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
⁸ Geographical Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.

Comment

Ellen A R Welti et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2021 May.

. 2021 May;5(5):589-591.

doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01424-0. Epub 2021 Apr 5.

¹ Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany. ellen.welti@senckenberg.de.
² Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.
³ Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, MA, USA.
⁴ Museum of Southwestern Biology, Biology Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
⁵ Department of Biology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA.
⁶ Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA.
⁷ Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
⁸ Geographical Ecology Group, Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.

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Comment in

M. S. Crossley et al. reply.
Crossley MS, Snyder WE, Moran MD. Crossley MS, et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2021 May;5(5):595-599. doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01429-9. Epub 2021 Apr 5. Nat Ecol Evol. 2021. PMID: 33820966 No abstract available.

No net insect abundance and diversity declines across US Long Term Ecological Research sites.
Crossley MS, Meier AR, Baldwin EM, Berry LL, Crenshaw LC, Hartman GL, Lagos-Kutz D, Nichols DH, Patel K, Varriano S, Snyder WE, Moran MD. Crossley MS, et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Oct;4(10):1368-1376. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1269-4. Epub 2020 Aug 10. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020. PMID: 32778751

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