Taxonomic bias in the treatment of hypothesized drivers of insect declines from 106 articles containing taxon-specific hypotheses. (a) The distribution of hypotheses about broad classes of drivers of decline across insect taxonomic groups. (b) The distribution of higher resolution driver and outcome nodes across taxonomic groups. Each colored point shows a node in the network in figure 2 that was said to affect at least two different orders. The nodes are plotted in the taxonomic section where they are most frequently mentioned. Therefore, all taxon-specific nodes are most associated with Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, or Lepidoptera. The line length from the center indicates how biased a term is. The dashed lines indicate which nodes are mentioned about a given taxonomic group more than 50%, 70%, or 90% of the time. The nodes are colored the same way as in figures 1, 2, and 3 (see supplement for node labels). Insect icons were designed by Suyeon Jang.
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