Organic Farming: Biodiversity Impacts Can Depend on Dispersal Characteristics and Landscape Context

Ruth E. Feber; Paul J. Johnson; James R. Bell; Dan E. Chamberlain; Leslie G. Firbank; Robert J. Fuller; Will Manley; Fiona Mathews; Lisa R. Norton; Martin Townsend; David W. Macdonald

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135921

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Organic Farming: Biodiversity Impacts Can Depend on Dispersal Characteristics and Landscape Context

Ruth E. Feber ,

* E-mail: ruth.feber@zoo.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tubney, United Kingdom
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Paul J. Johnson,

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tubney, United Kingdom
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James R. Bell,

Current address: Department of Agroecology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tubney, United Kingdom
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Dan E. Chamberlain,

Current address: University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Affiliation British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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Leslie G. Firbank,

Current address: The Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Robert J. Fuller,

Affiliation British Trust for Ornithology, Thetford, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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Will Manley,

Affiliation Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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Fiona Mathews,

Current address: College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tubney, United Kingdom
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Lisa R. Norton,

Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Martin Townsend,

Current address: Oxford, United Kingdom

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tubney, United Kingdom
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David W. Macdonald

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tubney, United Kingdom
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Organic Farming: Biodiversity Impacts Can Depend on Dispersal Characteristics and Landscape Context

Ruth E. Feber,
Paul J. Johnson,
James R. Bell,
Dan E. Chamberlain,
Leslie G. Firbank,
Robert J. Fuller,
Will Manley,
Fiona Mathews,
Lisa R. Norton,
Martin Townsend

Published: August 26, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135921

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