What do we know about insect responses to global change? A review of meta-analyses on global change drivers

Global change is causing major declines in biodiversity, especially of insects. Scientific interest in global change impacts on insects has increased in recent years, resulting in many different meta-analyses examining questions within this topic.
We performed a comprehensive review of meta-analyses examining effects of global change stressors on insects to identify well-studied questions and gaps in our knowledge and synthesize responses of insects to those stressors. We identified 75 meta-analyses that fit our scope, accounting for 905 meta-results, and spanning 18 global change stressors.
Our synthesis identified several global change stressors that are relatively well-studied across insect groups, such as agriculture, habitat degradation, and pesticide use. Moreover, other global change stressors were found to be relatively less-studied, highlighting areas that need more attention; for example, very few meta-analyses considered the impacts of global warming, ozone, light pollution, ..., , # What do we know about insect responses to global change? A review of meta-analyses on global change drivers

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.cjsxksnhr](10.5061/dryad.cjsxksnhr)

## Description of the data and file structure

We performed a literature search for meta-analyses studying the effects of global change on insects. We extracted data from these meta-analyses to perform a vote-count type of analysis. 

### Files and variables

#### File: Global\_change\_meta-analyses\_data\_cleaned.xlsx

**Description:** Dataset with data used in the paper. 

##### Variables

* Entry: Unique identifier for each entry
* Paper#: Unique identifier of the paper
* Author: Author name
* Year: Year of publication
* AuthorYear: combined author and year
* DOI: DOI of paper
* Global change driver single/multiple: if the global change driver studies is a single driver or multiple drivers.
* Global change drivers: specify the global change driver
* Geographic region: region at which they restricted their revie...,