supported by the project 2021B0038 of the Internal Grant Agency of Faculty of Environmental Sciences,CZU Prague entitled“Effect of incubation behaviour on predation risk in ducks(Common Pochard Aythya ferina and Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula)in two different habitats”;the project SS01010280 of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic entitled“Fishpond management optimization as a tool to biodiversity conservation under climate change”.
Despite all efforts,long-term changes in the adult sex ratios of breeding duck populations are still unclear;this uncertainty is especially true for male-bias populations,which are often under the scrutiny of research...
Background:The long-term monitoring of demographic changes in waterbird populations remains limited,but such information can be valuable for conservationists and waterbird managers.Biased sex ratios can indicate diffe...
This work was supported by the Wildfowl&Wetlands Trust and the University of Exeter。
Background:Our understanding of any impacts of swans on other waterbirds(including other swans),and potential effects on waterbird community structure,remain limited by a paucity of fundamental behavioural and ecologi...
supported by the United States Geological Survey(Ecosystems Mission Area);the National Science Foundation Small Grants for Exploratory Research(No.0713027);Wetlands International
Background: A number of conservation and societal issues require understanding how species are distributed on the landscape, yet ecologists are often faced with a lack of data to develop models at the resolution and e...
the helpful comments and advice by officers in Hii-River Fishery Cooperatives and Dr.Kayoko Kameda of Lake Biwa Museum.The River Found No.27-1263-020 and No.28-5311-020;JSPS Research Grants No.15H06417 and No.16KT0018;WEC Research Grant No.2016-02,and The Kyoto University Foundation support this research.
Excessive predation pressure from the waterfowl Phalacrocorax carbo(Great Cormorant)on Plecoglossus altivelis(Ayu)has recently been a severe problem of river environment in Japan.Local fishery cooperatives are current...
Background: While agriculture has taken much environmental water in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, agricultural expansion has resulted in a vast number of farm dams, almost three-quarters of a million in the Murray...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41471347 and 41401484);Tsinghua University(2012Z02287)
Accurately quantifying waterfowl migration patterns is pertinent to monitor ecosystem health and control bird-borne infectious diseases. In this review, we summarize the current understanding of the environmental mech...
supported by the Kananaskis Field Stations of the University of Calgary and University of California;the Dennis G. Raveling Endowment
The Black-headed Duck (Heteronetta atricapilla) is unique among obligate avian brood parasites because its highly precocial young leave the host nest shortly after hatching and impose no post-hatching costs on their h...
We studied the rate of lead resoprtion in the gastrointestinal tract of the bird and accumulation of this element by organs and tissues different in their morphology and functions. The minimum lethal lead dosage makin...
The hypothesis is taken that the shape of a duck breast is as to shed water drops in minimum time. If a water drop is further assumed to be a frictionless bead, then analogy arises with the classic brachistochrone pro...