Bird populations across the French countryside have fallen by a third over the last decade and a half, researchers have said.
Dozens of species have seen their numbers decline, in some cases by two-thirds, the scientists said in a pair of studies – one national in scope and the other covering a large agricultural region in central France.
“The situation is catastrophic,” said Benoit Fontaine, a conservation biologist at France’s National Museum of Natural History and co-author of one of the studies.
Does anyone have a link to the actual studies that are referenced? The article mentions Benoît Fontaine as one of the co-authors, but I don't see anything that matches in his recent publications:
Dozens of species have seen their numbers decline, in some cases by two-thirds, the scientists said in a pair of studies – one national in scope and the other covering a large agricultural region in central France.
“The situation is catastrophic,” said Benoit Fontaine, a conservation biologist at France’s National Museum of Natural History and co-author of one of the studies.
Does anyone have a link to the actual studies that are referenced? The article mentions Benoît Fontaine as one of the co-authors, but I don't see anything that matches in his recent publications:
http://cesco.mnhn.fr/search-publications?field_auteurs_autho...
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=f0kyLmwAAAAJ...