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Sovell Down (DTNC)
The map shows you the route that this butterfly transect follows.
| County: | Dorset (England) |
| Gridref: | ST992107 |
| Year established: | 1985 |
| Number of sections: | |
| Altitude (m): | Unknown |
| Length (m): | 945 |
| Width (m): | Unknown |
| 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 | ||
| Small Tortoiseshell | Stable | 26 | more | |||
| Orange Tip | Stable | 16 | more | |||
| Ringlet | Stable | 79 | more | |||
| Dark Green Fritillary | ? | 0 | .19 | more | ||
| Silver-washed Fritillary | ? | 0 | .080 | more | ||
| Brown Argus | Stable | 1 | .0 | more | ||
| Green Hairstreak | Decreasing | 2 | .1 | more | ||
| Holly Blue | Stable | 4 | .0 | more | ||
| Small Heath | Decreasing | 11 | more | |||
| Clouded Yellow | Stable | 0 | .57 | more | ||
| Small Blue | ? | 0 | .31 | more | ||
| Dingy Skipper | Decreasing | 3 | .7 | more | ||
| Grayling | ? | 0 | .040 | more | ||
| Brimstone | Increasing | 130 | more | |||
| Small Copper | Stable | 2 | .1 | more | ||
| Adonis Blue | ? | 0 | .23 | more | ||
| Chalk-hill Blue | Stable | * | 0 | .48 | more | |
| Meadow Brown | Stable | 460 | more | |||
| Gatekeeper/Hedge Brown | Stable | 130 | more | |||
| Marbled White | Stable | 73 | more | |||
| Peacock | Stable | 27 | more | |||
| Large Skipper | Decreasing | 21 | more | |||
| Speckled Wood | Stable | 29 | more | |||
| Wall Brown | ? | 0 | .14 | more | ||
| Large White | Stable | 64 | more | |||
| Green-veined White | Stable | 15 | more | |||
| Small White | Stable | 130 | more | |||
| Comma | Increasing | Colonised in 1991 | 2 | .8 | more | |
| Common Blue | Stable | 29 | more | |||
| Grizzled Skipper | Increasing | * | 0 | .99 | more | |
| Small Skipper | Decreasing | 9 | .0 | more | ||
| Red Admiral | Increasing | 11 | more | |||
| Painted Lady | Stable | 4 | .0 | 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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