Alfred Toepfer Academy

INTRODUCTION The call for integrating different disciplines and their respective concepts, theories, and methods is not new. In the context of conservation, it dates back at least to the 1960s (Henning, 1970; Potter et al., 1973; Watson et al., 2016).

Abstract The drastic insect decline has received increasing attention in scientific as well as in public media. Long‐term studies of insect diversity trends are still rare, even though such studies are highly important to assess extent, drivers and potential consequences of insect loss in ecosystems.