Garden and landscape-scale correlates of moths of differing conservation status: significant effects of urbanization and habitat diversity.

ABSTRACT: Moths are abundant and ubiquitous in vegetated terrestrial environments and are pollinators, important herbivores of wild plants, and food for birds, bats and rodents. In recent years, many once abundant and widespread species have shown sharp declines that have been cited by some as indicative of a widespread insect biodiversity crisis. Likely causes of these declines include agricultural intensification, light pollution, climate change, and urbanization; however, the real underlying cause(s) is still open to conjecture. We used data collected from the citizen science Garden Moth Scheme (GMS) to explore the spatial association between the abundance of 195 widespread British species of moth, and garden habitat and landscape features, to see if spatial habitat and landscape associations var

SUBMITTER: Bates AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3903603 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature