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Farmland has undergone some of the most extensive changes of any biotope in Britain over the past 40 years. The post-war drive for agricultural self-sufficiency, augmented by improved mechanization and the introduction of synthetic agro-chemicals in the 1950s, has led to drastic intensification of agriculture in lowland Britain (Mellanby, 1981; Sly, 1981). In addition to the well-documented loss of large areas of both farmed and non-agricultural semi-natural habitats (Anon., 1984), the area and quality of smaller, interstitial areas of uncultivated land within the arable landscape has been decimated.
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Feber, R.E., Smith, H. (1995). Butterfly conservation on arable farmland. In: Pullin, A.S. (eds) Ecology and Conservation of Butterflies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1282-6_6
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