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T1  - Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/313077 
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A1  - Cardoso, Pedro; Barton, Philip S.; Birkhofer, Klaus; Chichorro, Filipe; Deacon, Charl; Fartmann, Thomas; Fukushima, Caroline S.; Gaigher, René; Habel, Jan C.; Hallmann, Caspar A.; Hill, Matthew J.; Hochkirch, Axel; Kwak, Mackenzie L.; Mammola, Stefano; Ari Noriega, Jorge; Orfinger, Alexander B.; Pedraza, Fernando; Pryke, James S.; Roque, Fabio O.; Settele, Josef; Simaika, John P.; Stork, Nigel E.; Suhling, Frank; Vorster, Carlien; Samways, Michael J. 
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Y1  - 2020 
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AB  - Here we build on the manifesto ‘World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity, issued by the Alliance of World Scientists. As a group of conservation biologists deeply concerned about the decline of insect populations, we here review what we know about the drivers of insect extinctions, their consequences, and how extinctions can negatively impact humanity. We are causing insect extinctions by driving habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, use of polluting and harmful substances, the spread of in... 
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KW  - Arthropods; BRITISH BUTTERFLIES; Biodiversity loss; CLIMATE-CHANGE; CONSERVATION; Centinelan extinctions; Drivers of extinction; ECONOMIC VALUE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; Ecosystem services; FINE SEDIMENT; FLEAS INSECTA; HABITAT QUALITY; SPECIES-DIVERSITY; STAG BEETLE; Threatened species; 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology 
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