Monitoring butterfly abundance in relation to the management of a nature reserve

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Biological Conservation

Volume 24, Issue 4, December 1982, Pages 317-328

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The use of monitoring, by means of transect counts, to assess the effect of management on the butterflies of a nature reserve is described. Trends in numbers at Monks Wood National Nature Reserve over a seven-year period are compared with the trends calculated from the combined data from a number of other sites in eastern England. Departures in the Monks Wood data from wider trends are shown. These departures are shown to be related to management of the rides and fields of the reserve.

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Monitoring butterfly abundance in relation to the management of a nature reserve

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Monks Wood and its environment, past and present

A national scheme for monitoring the abundance of butterflies: the first three years