‘Decimated’: Germany’s birds disappear as insect abundance plummets 76%

Mongabay
Oct 27, 2017, 3:28 pm128 pts
Germany’s flying insect biomass has dropped 76 percent in the past 27 years, according to a study published last week in PLOS ONE. The findings have stunned biologists around the world and are prompting concern about potentially disastrous ecological consequences as another study finds the country lost 15…

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