Insights from regional and short-term biodiversity monitoring datasets are valuable: a reply to Daskalova et al. 2021

2021-01-01
Seibold, Sebastian
Hothorn, Torsten
Gossner, Martin M.
Simons, Nadja K.
Bluthgen, Nico
Muller, Jorg
Ambarlı, Didem
Ammer, Christian
Bauhus, Jurgen
Fischer, Markus
Habel, Jan C.
Penone, Caterina
Schall, Peter
Schulze, Ernst-Detlef
Weisser, Wolfgang W.
Reports of major losses in insect biodiversity have stimulated an increasing interest in temporal population changes. Existing datasets are often limited to a small number of study sites, few points in time, a narrow range of land-use intensities and only some taxonomic groups, or they lack standardised sampling. While new monitoring programs have been initiated, they still cover rather short time periods.
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Citation Formats
S. Seibold et al., “Insights from regional and short-term biodiversity monitoring datasets are valuable: a reply to Daskalova et al. 2021,” INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 144–148, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/100464.