GLiTRS
glitrs.bsky.social
GLiTRS
@glitrs.bsky.social
GLobal Insect Threat-Response Synthesis (GLiTRS). A project aiming to develop a comprehensive and predictive assessment of the pattern and consequences of insect decline.
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NEW PAPER! And what a challenging one. It has taught us a lot about how we can understand the impacts of pressures on insects, and I hope we can continue to add to it into the future. Another great output from the @glitrs.bsky.social GLiTRS project team 🌍 🐝 🐜 🦋 🐞
New paper! Today introducing a 'multi-threat meta-analytic database for understanding insect biodiversity change', an output from the @glitrs.bsky.social project (see glitrs.ceh.ac.uk).
The GLiTRS project: assessing global patterns and consequences of insect declines. | GLiTRS
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May 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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New paper! Today introducing a 'multi-threat meta-analytic database for understanding insect biodiversity change', an output from the @glitrs.bsky.social project (see glitrs.ceh.ac.uk).
The GLiTRS project: assessing global patterns and consequences of insect declines. | GLiTRS
glitrs.ceh.ac.uk
May 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New GLiTRS paper led by @joemillard.bsky.social 🚨📝

"Our database provides a framework for the first global meta-analytic overview of the response of insects to a range of major anthropogenic drivers"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Multithreat Meta‐Analytic Database for Understanding Insect Biodiversity Change
Aim Widespread declines in insect biodiversity have been attributed to a diverse set of anthropogenic drivers, but the relative importance of these drivers remains unclear. A key reason for this unc...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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✨Bumble bee probability of occurrence responds to interactions between local and landscape land use, climatic niche properties and climate change🐝New paper out, led by @tnewbold31.bsky.social, & with @jetkerr.bsky.social & Peter Soroye (the result of some fantastic trips across the Atlantic 🇨🇦) 🌎 🧪 🌐
Bumble Bee Probability of Occurrence Responds to Interactions Between Local and Landscape Land Use, Climatic Niche Properties and Climate Change
We analyse a collation of bumble bee presence and absence data from across the continents of Western Europe and North America, spanning both natural and human-modified habitats. We find that bumble b....
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May 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Grizzled Skipper (Pyrgus malvae) had its worst year on record in the UK in 2024. It numbers at @ukbms.bsky.social monitored sites have been below average now in 20 of the last 25 years. Since 1976, its population has decreased by 49% (📷Mark Searle)
April 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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How do we increase nature literacy among society? Some thoughts from @waspwoman.bsky.social
theconversation.com/heres-how-to...
Here’s how to create a more nature-literate society
Nature literacy has inspired creativity and innovation for thousands of years.
theconversation.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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NEWS: Despite fears about insect declines, we know very little about 99% of species globally 🌍📉.

Scientists are proposing a new approach to get a more complete picture of insect populations and analyse how they are responding to threats.

Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/some-i... 🧪

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April 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
NEW PAPER from the GLiTRS team! 🎉

We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜

"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org

🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa

A summary 🧵 below (1/7)
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:

Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important

Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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April 2, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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😎 It's 1 April and that can only mean one thing... yes, insect survey season is back in earnest!

🐝🪰 Check out @pomscheme.bsky.social to help monitor #pollinator abundance with 10-minute Flower-Insect Timed Counts

🦋 And see @ukbms.bsky.social for getting involved with #butterfly transects
April 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Our new paper thinking about bias in population monitoring using @ukbms.bsky.social data 🌍🦋
📖Published📖

Our new research article demonstrates how you might combine expert knowledge with causal diagrams and superpopulation models to mitigate geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data 🌎 🧪 Read it here 👇

https://buff.ly/3C2ZKws
January 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM