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Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW ‐European pollinators and plants
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Concern about biodiversity loss has led to increased public investment in conservation. Whereas there is a widespread perception that such initiatives have been unsuccessful, there are few quantitative tests of this perception. Here, we evaluate whether rates of biodiversity change have altered in recent decades in three European countries (Great Britain, Netherlands and Belgium) for plants and flower visiting insects. We compared four 20‐year periods, comparing periods of rapid land‐use intensification and natural habitat loss (1930–1990) with a period of increased conservation investment (post‐1990). We found that extensive species richness loss and biotic homogenisation occurred before 1990, whereas these negative trends became substantially less accentuated during recent decades, being partially reversed for certain taxa (e.g. bees in Great Britain and Netherlands). These results highlight the potential to maintain or even restore current species assemblages (which despite past extinctions are still of great conservation value), at least in regions where large‐scale land‐use intensification and natural habitat loss has ceased.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Carvalheiro, L. G., Kunin, W. E., Keil, P., Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, J., Ellis, W. N., Fox, R., Groom, Q., Hennekens, S., Van Landuyt, W., Maes, D., Van de Meutter, F., Michez, D., Rasmont, P., Ode, B., Potts, S. G., Reemer, M., Roberts, S. P. M., Schaminée, J., WallisDeVries, M. F., & Biesmeijer, J. C.
- Venue
- Ecology Letters
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-05-21
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 870-878
- ISSN
- 1461-023X (ISSN-L)
- 1461-0248
- OpenAlex
- W2163848454
- Cited by
- 371
- References
- 37
- FWCI
- 41.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2013-10-20)
- Open access
- hybrid
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