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The second Silent Spring?

Nature volume 400, pages 611612 (12 August 1999) | Download Citation

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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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  1. 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.

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  2. Gavin M. Siriwardena is at the British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, Norfolk, UK.

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  3. Jeremy D. Wilson is at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, Bedfordshire SG19 2DL, UK.

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