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The second Silent Spring?

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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. Department of Zoology, Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX1 3PS, Oxford, UK

    John R. Krebs & Richard B. Bradbury

  2. British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, Norfolk, UK

    Gavin M. Siriwardena

  3. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, SG19 2DL, Bedfordshire, UK

    Jeremy D. Wilson

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Krebs, J., Wilson, J., Bradbury, R. et al. The second Silent Spring?. Nature 400, 611–612 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/23127

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