Coccinellids in a changing world Roy, Helen E.; Majerus, Michael
E.N.. 2010 Coccinellids in a changing world. In: Kindlmann,
Pavel; Dixon, A.F.G.; Michaud, J.P., (eds.) Aphid biodiversity
under environmental change. Patterns and processes. Springer,
149-170.Full text not available from this repository. Current
rates of biodiversity change and loss exceed those historically
recorded and show no indication of slowing. Comparisons of
recorded extinctions of known species over the last 100 years
with rates of extinction of characteristic species in the fossil
record indicate that humans have increased the species
extinction rate by 100 times. The major drivers of biodiversity
change are considered to be habitat change, climate change,
invasive species, overexploitation and pollution but changes in
biodiversity and ecosystems are most often caused by the
interactions between multiple drivers, across both spatial and
temporal dimensions. Dietary and habitat generalist and
specialist coccinellids should exhibit diff