Scrub invasion of the chalk grassland at Porton Down is sometimes by hawthorn, occasionally by juniper, and in a few areas by regenerating Scots pines. A mapping census of each of these habitats shows the hawthorn to be the richest in number of species, but the juniper to have the highest density of breeding birds.
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Robert Morgan (1975) studied this question.
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