Although urbanization poses various threats to avifauna,some bird species,including Mallards(Anas platyrhynchos),choose towns and cities as their wintering habitats,possibly due to favourable temperatures and abundant...
supported by the research grant of the National Science Centre in Poland(2016/23/B/NZ8/02374).
Most behavioral traits are known to be weakly heritable,possibly due to their extreme complexity and flexibility.Despite this general pattern,within-species variation in avian colony size choice has been reported to h...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation for the Higher Education Institutions of Anhui Province of China(grant no.KJ 2021A0246).
The gut microbiota of migratory waterbirds is affected by various complex factors,including cross-species transmission,which increases the risk of pathogen spreading among sympatric animals and poses a potential publi...
supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(BLX202147);the Joint Fund for Regional Innovation and Development of NSFC(U22A20563).
Throughout evolutionary history,animals are finely tuned to adjust their behaviors corresponding to environmental variations.Behavioral flexibility represents an important component of a species'adaptive capacity in t...
P07-CVI-02700 from the Con-sejería de Innovacion,Ciencia y Empresa(Junta de Andalucía)/EU-ERDF.
After breeding,Black-necked Grebes(Podiceps nigricollis)perform a moult-migration to autumn hypersaline staging sites,where they moult the flight feathers and forage on superabundant brine shrimp(Artemia spp.)before l...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31870369,31970433);China Biodiversity Observation Networks(Sino BON);Innovative Research Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(CN);No.31670424。
Background:In the face of continued degradation and loss of wetlands in the Yangtze River floodplain(YRF),there is an urgent need to monitor the abundance and distribution of wintering waterbirds.To understand fully o...
Funding for GPS telemetry was provided by the International Crane Foundation, U.S. Forest Service, and the Paulson Institute. The animal capturing and marking permits were granted by the Ministry of Environment, Green Development, and Tourism of Mongolia to the Mongolian Wildlife Science and the Conservation Center. We thank Peter Mann for providing useful comments. We feel grateful to the European Space Agency (ESA) for providing the Sentinel-1 data. We finally thank the Sino-European joint research DRAGON 4 cooperation (ID. 32442. New Earth Observation Tools for Water Resource and Quality Monitoring in Yangtze Wetlands and Lakes) initiated within the ESA, MOST & NRSCC cooperation for initiating the collaboration.
Wetlands are among the most productive and essential ecosystems on earth,but they are also highly sensitive and vulnerable to climate change and human disturbance.One of the current scientific challenges is to integra...
This was supported by 2020 Yeungnam University Research Grant.
Background:Land use and development alter mudflat and wetland habitat availability,although mudflats and wetlands provide important stopover habitats for shorebirds during the spring and autumn migrations and support ...
The National Natural Science Foundation of China(41471149 and 31060079)
Background:Restoration projects have been implemented worldwide to mitigate the adverse effects of the loss and degradation of wetland habitats.Much research has been carried out on the impacts on birds of wetland res...
Background: The Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) is a characteristic waterbird species of inland wetlands in northeastern Algeria. Its wintering behavior in relation to changes of local abundances and foraging group density...