title: Silent fields: the decline of farmland birds in Europe.
abstract: Populations of many farmland birds appear to have collapsed across much of Europe. Agricultural intensification is driving populations down over huge areas and represents probably the greatest single threat to the continent's birds. Understanding the problem, however, is only the first step to putting farmland birds back in the countryside. The plight of these once-widespread birds highlights the need for improved monitoring across Europe.
authors.affiliation: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK. paul.donald@rspb.org.uk
authors.forename: Paul F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Donald
authors.forename: Richard G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Gregory
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001717:Birds / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D017753:Ecosystem; D005060:Europe; D011157:Population Dynamics