Investigating effect of climate warming on the population declines of Sympetrum frequens during the 1990s in three regions in Japan

Abstract Climate warming is of concern as a key factor in the worldwide decline in insect populations. In Japan, numbers of a common dragonfly in rice paddy fields, Sympetrum frequens, decreased sharply in the 1990s. Because S. frequens migrates to cooler mountains in summer, climate warming has bee...

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Main Authors: Kosuke Nakanishi, Dai Koide, Hiroyuki Yokomizo, Taku Kadoya, Takehiko I. Hayashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69532-8