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Powerstock Railway
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Dorset (England) |
| Gridref: | SY540974 |
| Year established: | 1997 |
| Number of sections: | 8 |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 1600 |
| Width (m): | 5 |
| Broad habitat: | Bare ground/weed communities of post industrial sites e.g. quarries/pits/road/rail/landfill sites |
Species list...
The following species have been recorded on this site:
| Species | Status | Colonised/extinct | Asynchronous | Mean count | ||
| Orange Tip | Decreasing | 6 | .9 | more | ||
| Ringlet | Decreasing | 180 | more | |||
| Dark Green Fritillary | ? | 2 | .5 | more | ||
| Silver-washed Fritillary | Stable | 48 | more | |||
| Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary | ? | 1 | .5 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | ? | 0 | .49 | more | ||
| Green Hairstreak | ? | 1 | .6 | more | ||
| Holly Blue | ? | 1 | .7 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Decreasing | 29 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | ? | 2 | .0 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Stable | 13 | more | |||
| Marsh Fritillary | Stable | 9 | .3 | more | ||
| Brimstone | Stable | 13 | more | |||
| Duke of Burgundy Fritillary | ? | 0 | .22 | more | ||
| Wood White | Stable | 28 | more | |||
| Small Copper | ? | 2 | .9 | more | ||
| Meadow Brown | Decreasing | 460 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper / Hedge Brown | Decreasing | 310 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Decreasing | 73 | more | |||
| Peacock | Stable | 61 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Decreasing | 20 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Decreasing | 250 | more | |||
| Large White | Decreasing | 30 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | Decreasing | 27 | more | |||
| Small White | Decreasing | 30 | more | |||
| Comma | Stable | 5 | .8 | more | ||
| Common Blue | Stable | 72 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | Stable | 4 | .9 | more | ||
| Purple Hairstreak | ? | 0 | .19 | more | ||
| Small Skipper | Decreasing | 13 | more | |||
| Red Admiral | Stable | * | 32 | more | ||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 3 | .8 | more | ||
| Small/Essex Skipper | Decreasing | 13 | more | |||
This table shows the species that have been recorded on this site. Where sufficient data is available, trends in abundance are assessed and colonisation/extinction events are identified. Species are marked as 'asynchronous' when their trends on this site are markedly different from the national trend. Click on 'more' to see a plot of abundance through time for each species. See green question mark above for more details.
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