What is it about?

We show that the decline of some butterflies (and the increase of others) is a response to the changing qualities of vegetation in response to the deposition of nitrogen

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Why is it important?

We show for the first time that nitrogen deposition lays behind the loss of soem species of butterfly

Perspectives

This continues the work of Dr feest in the development of biodiversity quality as a way of measuring biodiversity change.

Dr Alan Feest
University of Bristol

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This page is a summary of: Nitrogen deposition and the reduction of butterfly biodiversity quality in the Netherlands, Ecological Indicators, April 2014, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.12.008.
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