Prioritizing landscapes for mitigating the impacts of onshore wind farms on multidimensional waterbird diversity in the Yellow Sea  

作　　者：Shanshan Zhao Huan Xu Tianhou Wang Hepeng Li Xiuzhen Li Ningning Liu Xiao Song Feng Guan Xuechu Chen Aichun Xu Ben Li 

机构地区：[1]College of Life Sciences,Yangtze River Delta Institute of Biodiversity Conservation and Utilation,China Jiliang University,Hangzhou 310018,China [2]State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research,East China Normal University,Shanghai 200062,China [3]Shanghai Wildlife and Protected Natural Areas Research Center,Shanghai 200336,China [4]School of Life Science,East China Normal University,Shanghai 200062,China [5]Zhejiang Academy of Forestry,Hangzhou 310023,China [6]School of Life Sciences,Fudan University,Shanghai 200433,China [7]Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration,School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences,East China Normal University,Shanghai 200241,China

出　　处：《Current Zoology》2024年第6期752-764,共13页动物学报（英文版）

基　　金：fnancially supported by the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(No.18DZ1205000);Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31901099);Yangtze Delta Estuarine Wetland Ecosystem Observation and Research Station,Ministry of Education,Shanghai Science and Technology Committee(ECNU-YDEWS-2022);Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering,Institute of Biodiversity Science,Fudan University(2023-FDU-KF-02);Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration(SHUES2023A04);“Pioneer”and“Leading Goose”R&D Program of Zhejiang(2024C02002).

摘　　要：Ongoing wind energy developments play a key role in mitigating the global effects of climate change and the energy crisis;however,they have complex ecological consequences for many flying animals.The Yellow Sea coast is considered as an ecological bottleneck for migratory waterbirds along the East Asian–Australasian flyway(EAAF),and is also an important wind farm base in China.However,the effects of large-scale onshore wind farms along the EAAF on multidimensional waterbird diversity,and how to mitigate these effects,remain unclear.Here we examined how wind farms and their surrounding landscapes affected multidimensional waterbird diversity along the Yellow Sea coast.Taxonomic,functional,and phylogenetic diversity of the waterbird assemblages,and mean pairwise distances and nearest taxon distances with null models were quantified in relation to 4 different wind turbine densities.We also measured 6 landscape variables.Multi-dimensional waterbird diversity(taxonomic,functional,and phylogenetic diversity)significantly decreased with increasing wind turbine density.Functional and phylogenetic structures tended to be clustered in waterbird communities,and environmental filtering drove waterbird community assemblages.Furthermore,waterbird diversity was regulated by a combination of wind turbine density and landscape variables,with edge density of aquaculture ponds,in addition to wind turbine density,having the greatest independent contribution to waterbird diversity.These results suggest that attempts to mitigate the impact of wind farms on waterbird diversity could involve the landscape transformation of wind farm regions,for example,by including high-edge-density aquaculture ponds(i.e.,industrial ponds)around wind farms,instead of traditional low-edge-density aquaculture ponds.

关 键 词：East China coast environmental filtering mitigation measure renewable energy sustainable development waterbird conservation 

分 类 号：Q95[生物学—动物学]