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Understanding 100 years of farmland biodiversity loss

Flora and fauna on Dutch farmland have gone through substantial changes over the 20th century.

The butterfly population in the Netherlands declined further in 2012 and has currently reached the lowest level of the past twenty years

The 20 National Landscape conservation areas in the Netherlands cover nearly 900 thousand hectares, i.e. more than 20 percent of the total Dutch land area.

The quality of flora in the Dutch countryside deteriorated in the period 2000-2007. Vegetation such as brambles, catch weed, creeping thistles and stinging nettles have increased and displaced other...