[APWG] ARTICLE: Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts

[Park, Margaret E]

David L. Wagner,  Eliza M. Grames,  Matthew L. Forister,  May R. Berenbaum, and David Stopak, PNAS, January 12, 2021

Nature is under siege. In the last 10,000 y the human population has grown from 1 million to 7.8 billion. Much of Earth’s arable lands are already in agriculture, millions of acres of tropical forest are cleared each year, atmospheric CO2 levels are at their highest concentrations in more than 3 million y, and climates are erratically and steadily changing from pole to pole, triggering unprecedented droughts, fires, and floods across continents. Indeed, most biologists agree that the world has entered its sixth mass extinction event, the first since the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million y ago, when more than 80% of all species, including the non-avian dinosaurs, perished.

Link to article: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/2/e2023989118?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=036ffa0609-briefing-dy-20210114&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-036ffa0609-44375001

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