Research undertaken by Natural England, CEH (the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) and Bournemouth University has revealed that Britain’s woodlands are losing their biodiversity in findings published online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
A number of factors have been identified as contributing factors to the reduction in diversity of species. The researchers compared the results of surveys that were undertaken in the 1930s across 7000 sites in Dorset to their findings after revisiting 86 of the sites originally surveyed and found that the diversity of species of plants found within those woodlands were significantly less so than in the original data set. The overall number of species has remained the same, however the individuality of different areas of woodland has been particularly affected.
The familiar sound of the cuckoo is becoming a less heard occurrence in Britain, and the bird has been added to the 