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Org). 2) Karsholt O, Razowski J (1996) The Lepidoptera of Europe, a distributional checklist. Apollo Books, Stenstrup. 3) Solodovnikov IA, Dovgailo KE, Rubin NI (2003) The butterflies (diurnal Lepidoptera) of Belarus. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia–Moscow. AT L A S OF Although there have been numerous studies of the effects of local-scale changes in land use on the abundance of groups of organisms, broader continental analyses, addressing the same issues, are still largely absent (Gaston et al. 2003), or concentrate mostly on alternative single pressure variables.

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As only human agents and their decisions can be addressed, natural feedbacks from ecosystems and processes in those are not integrated or modelled (see Figure 4). g. agricultural losses or health cost before they can be taken into account. Shortages of resources are expressed as price increases, but absolute limits to their availability cannot be modelled (Scrieciu 2007). ◙ Economic modelling suggests that adaptation might happen quite easily in the business sector, as the speed of change in the economic system is so much higher than in the bio-geosphere that it can relatively easily accommodate these changes of the environment into the investment planning of the business cycle.