Grames Lab | Conservation Ecology, Quantitative Ecology, and Synthesis
EntoGEM is a community-driven project that aims to compile evidence about global insect population and biodiversity status and trends. Our goal is to assess the current state of evidence in the scientific literature regarding insect declines, increases, or lack of changes over time. Our hope is that this collection of literature, published and unpublished, will be used to inform stakeholders, such as entomologists, conservation biologists, insect enthusiasts, policy makers, or systemic review experts, and a
Recent studies documenting declines in insect abundance and biodiversity have raised concerns about a global insect conservation crisis with potentially dire consequences. There are over five and a half million insect species globally that are critical to maintaining ecosystem integrity; they fill roles as pollinators, herbivores, decomposers, and prey for other organisms.
Media coverage of the potential consequences of losing insect species has raised public interest in the topic of insect conservation. News stories like the "The Insect Apocalypse is Here" in the New York Times pointed to the "windshield phenomenon" noticed by entomologists and evidence of this trend from studies like the Krefeld study.
Grames Lab | Conservation Ecology, Quantitative Ecology, and Synthesis