The drive to squeeze ever more food from the land has sent Europe's farmland wildlife into a precipitous decline. How can agricultural policy be reformed so that we have fewer grain mountains and more skylarks?
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John R. Krebs and Richard B. Bradbury are at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
- John R. Krebs
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Gavin M. Siriwardena is at the British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, Norfolk, UK.
- Gavin M. Siriwardena
Jeremy D. Wilson is at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, Bedfordshire SG19 2DL, UK.
- Jeremy D. Wilson
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