Claim · #6495214
Insecta (class) · pest pressure · cropland (anthropogenic habitat)
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“intensive agriculture is associated with steep insect declines”
- Authors
- Outhwaite C.L., McCann P., Newbold T.
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- Nature
- Page
- 1
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Land-use intensification as primary driver of insect declines is robustly supported (Outhwaite, Sanchez-Bayo, IPBES). High-confidence claim.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Global meta-analyses (Outhwaite 2022, van Klink 2020) confirm intensive agriculture as major driver of insect abundance and richness loss.”
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