image: Birds from across the tree of life thrive in agriculture and forest landscapes, but the most evolutionarily distinct birds decline in intensive agriculture settings. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 12 2014 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.O. Frishkoff at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, and colleagues was titled, 'Neotropical agriculture reduces phylogenetic diversity and favors closely related birds.' view more
Credit: [Credit: Daniel Karp]