The second Silent Spring?

@article{Krebs1999TheSS,
  title={The second Silent Spring?},
  author={John Richard Krebs and Jeremy D. Wilson and Richard B. Bradbury and Gavin M. Siriwardena},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1999},
  volume={400},
  pages={611-612}
}
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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The results suggest that recent trends in agriculture have had deleterious and measurable effects on bird populations on a continental scale and predict that the introduction of EU agricultural policies into former communist countries hoping to accede to the EU in the near future will result in significant declines in the important bird populations there.
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The Partridge: Pesticides, Predation and Conservation
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