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New research identifies the plight of farmland birds

Farmland birds that are poorer parents and less “brainy” are faring worse than other farmland bird species, a study at the University of Bristol has found.
The new research, published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that farmla…

NJIT professor helps make case in Science for better biodiversity

In a Policy Forum article in today’s issue of Science, a group of leading biodiversity scientists, including NJIT’s Daniel Bunker, have argued that targets to be met by 2020 under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) must consider the real v…