Widespread local house-sparrow extinctions - Agricultural intensification is blamed for the plummeting populations of these birds.

被引:120
作者
Hole, DG
Whittingham, MJ
Bradbury, RB
Anderson, GQA
Lee, PLM
Wilson, JD
Krebs, JR
机构
[1] Univ Oxford, Farmland Bird Grp, Edward Grey Inst Field Ornithol, Oxford OX1 3PS, England
[2] Royal Soc Protect Birds, Sandy SG19 2DL, Beds, England
[3] Dunedin House, Edinburgh EH4 3TP, Midlothian, Scotland
[4] Univ Coll Swansea, Sch Biol Sci, Swansea SA2 8PP, W Glam, Wales
关键词
D O I
10.1038/418931a
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
9
引用
收藏
页码:931 / 932
页数:2
相关论文
共 9 条
[1]   Changes in the abundance of farmland birds in relation to the timing of agricultural intensification in England and Wales [J].
Chamberlain, DE ;
Fuller, RJ ;
Bunce, RGH ;
Duckworth, JC ;
Shrubb, M .
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, 2000, 37 (05) :771-788
[2]  
Cornuet JM, 1996, GENETICS, V144, P2001
[3]   Genetic structure of avian populations - allozymes revisited [J].
Crochet, PA .
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY, 2000, 9 (10) :1463-1469
[4]  
GREGORY RD, 2001, STATE UKS BIRDS 2000
[5]   Metapopulation dynamics [J].
Hanski, I .
NATURE, 1998, 396 (6706) :41-49
[6]   The second silent spring? [J].
Krebs, JR ;
Wilson, JD ;
Bradbury, RB ;
Siriwardena, GM .
NATURE, 1999, 400 (6745) :611-612
[7]   Post-war changes in arable farming and biodiversity in Great Britain [J].
Robinson, RA ;
Sutherland, WJ .
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, 2002, 39 (01) :157-176
[8]  
SUMMERSMITH JD, 1988, SPARROWS
[9]  
WERNHAM CV, IN PRESS MIGRATION A