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Extensive Tracking of Nomadic Waterbird Movements Reveals an Inland Flyway [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Waterbirds are highly mobile and have the ability to respond to environmental conditions opportunistically at multiple scales. Mobility is particularly crucial for aggregate‐nesting species dependent on breeding habitat in arid and semi‐arid wetlands ...
Heather M. McGinness, Micha V. Jackson, Luke Lloyd‐Jones, Freya Robinson, Art Langston, Louis G. O'Neill, Shoshana Rapley, Melissa Piper, Micah Davies, Jessica Hodgson, John M. Martin, Richard Kingsford, Kate Brandis, Veronica Doerr, Ralph Mac Nally   +14 more
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Identifying priority wetland sites in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway for migratory bird conservation [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) is widely recognised to be the most threatened of the eight flyways in the world, with wetlands rapidly lost due to land cover change, unsustainable use, and the wider impacts of climate change.
Mike Crosby, Shelby Q. W. Wee, Ding Li Yong, Gary Allport, Sayam U. Chowdhury, Gan Xiaojing, Ward Hagemeijer, Arne E. Jensen, Duncan A. I. Lang, Cynthia Layusa, Yoon Kyung Lee, Taej Mundkur, Heejin Oh, Shi Jianbin, Terry Townshend, Doug Watkins, Qing Zeng, Lenke Balint, Stefano Barchiesi, Radhika Bhargava Gajre, William Fairburn, Daniel A. Friess, Tom Lambert, Hui Koon Lim, Karen G. C. Ochavo, Evelyn Pina-Covarrubias, Hao Tang, Kelvin S.-H. Peh   +27 more
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China’s intertidal mariculture as an unexpected lifeline sustaining the world’s most threatened shorebird flyway [PDF]

Nature Communications
Finding ways to sustainably balance human needs with biodiversity conservation is increasingly challenging, especially on densely populated coasts. In China, rising demands for seafood and land intensify pressures on coastal habitats—the most critical ...
He-Bo Peng, Zhenchang Zhu, Chi-Yeung Choi, Tong Mu, Yingrong Huang, Jing Li, Weipan Lei, Tjeerd J. Bouma, David S. Melville, Zhengwang Zhang, Zhijun Ma, Guangchun Lei, Zhifeng Yang, Theunis Piersma   +13 more
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Drought Intensity, Timing, and Reproductive Strategy Drive Submerged Macrophyte Resilience [PDF]

Plants
Extreme droughts are projected to become more frequent and severe under climate change, posing significant risks to wetland ecosystems and submerged macrophyte communities.
Ying He, Peizhong Liu, Chengxiang Zhang, Zijian Wang, Xiaobo Zhang, Kaidi Guo, Yangsirui Zhang, Jialin Lei, Jiaying Zhou, Qing Zeng, Cai Lu, Ting Lei, Li Wen, Guangchun Lei   +13 more
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Optimal Management of a Multispecies Shorebird Flyway under Sea‐Level Rise [PDF]

Conservation Biology, 2014
Abstract Every year, millions of migratory shorebirds fly through the East Asian–Australasian Flyway between their arctic breeding grounds and Australasia. This flyway includes numerous coastal wetlands in Asia and the Pacific that are used as stopover sites where birds rest and feed. Loss of a few important stopover sites through sea‐
Takuya Iwamura, Hugh P Possingham
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Deciphering Cryptic Population Structure in Western Sandhill Crane Subspecies (Antigone canadensis) of the Pacific Flyway [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Population segregation catalyses genetic differentiation and can lead to speciation. Population genetic structure is also critically important for population management, especially in species characterised by small, isolated populations.
Ruth Joy, Krista Roessingh, Kathleen Meszaros, Allyson Miscampbell, Carol Ritland, Matt Hayes, Gary Ivey, Mike Petrula, Jeffrey B. Joy   +8 more
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Temporal Dynamics of the Goose Habitat in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River

Remote Sensing, 2022
The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are the most important areas for geese to overwinter in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, where about 180,000 geese fly to overwinter each year.
Ke He, Jialin Lei, Yifei Jia, Entao Wu, Gongqi Sun, Cai Lu, Qing Zeng, Guangchun Lei   +7 more
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Emerging highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N8) virus in migratory birds in Central China, 2020

Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2021
Eleven highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N8 viruses (clade 2.3.4.4b) were detected in migratory birds in Central China between November and December 2020, which were highly homologous to strains isolated in Europe from October to December 2020 ...
Jiasong Xiong, Hao Zhou, Lifang Fan, Gongliang Zhu, Yong Li, Guang Chen, Jun Zhang, Jundong Li, Hesong Zheng, Wei Feng, Jing Chen, Guoxiang Yang, Quanjiao Chen   +12 more
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Food resources for Spoon-billed Sandpipers (Calidris pygmaea) in the mudflats of Leizhou Bay, southern China

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Leizhou Bay in Guangdong Province is the most important wintering site in China for the critically endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers (Calidris pygmaea).
Xiuyuan Lu, Xiuyuan Lu, Hongyan Yang, Hongyan Yang, Theunis Piersma, Theunis Piersma, Theunis Piersma, Theunis Piersma, Lili Sun, Lili Sun, Lili Sun, Qing Chen, Yifei Jia, Yifei Jia, Guangchun Lei, Guangchun Lei, Li Cheng, Xinpeng Rao   +17 more
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Combining modern tracking data and historical records improves understanding of the summer habitats of the Eastern Lesser White‐fronted Goose Anser erythropus

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
The Lesser White‐fronted Goose (Anser erythropus), smallest of the “gray” geese, is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and protected in all range states.
Haitao Tian, Diana Solovyeva, Gleb Danilov, Sergey Vartanyan, Li Wen, Jialin Lei, Cai Lu, Peter Bridgewater, Guangchun Lei, Qing Zeng   +9 more
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