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Waders in a sea of debris: a global overview

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The impact of plastic pollution on ecosystems and marine fauna is well documented, although research into its effects on waders (also known as shorebirds) remains limited. Given that waders are exposed to coastal marine litter, this exposure could be a significant factor in the decline of their populations. This study aims to assess the global
Yada Trapletti‐Lanti, Mónica Expósito‐Granados, Elizabeth Znidersic, Marga L. Rivas   +3 more
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Efficient removal of Spartina alterniflora with low negative environmental impacts using imazapyr

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Invasion by smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora Loisel) has greatly impacted the intertidal ecosystems of China. Worldwide, chemical control is the most widely used method to control Spartina species, but it has not been widely implemented along the ...
He-Bo Peng, He-Bo Peng, He-Bo Peng, Jianbin Shi, Xiaojing Gan, Jing Zhang, Chao Ma, Theunis Piersma, Theunis Piersma, Theunis Piersma, David S. Melville   +10 more
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Beyond birds: rethinking bird‐centered pathogen models in light of insect migration

Ecography, EarlyView.
Migration redistributes biomass, nutrients, and pathogens across ecosystems. For decades, migratory birds have been treated as the default long‐distance pathogen vectors, shaping both conceptual frameworks and empirical models of disease ecology.
Virginia Morandini
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Global analysis of annual survival among shorebirds reveals a negative effect of migration distance and a decline in recent decades

Oikos, EarlyView.
Annual survival is a key demographic parameter driving population trends in wildlife populations. However, despite numerous species‐specific or regional studies, global reviews of the factors affecting the survival of declining taxa remain scarce. Here, we investigated annual survival of fledged immature and adult shorebirds, a globally‐distributed and
Guillaume Dillenseger, Christopher H. J. Sparkes, Tamás Székely, Brett K. Sandercock, Robert P. Freckleton, Vojtěch Kubelka   +5 more
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Spring migration and breeding distribution of female Ring-necked Ducks wintering in the southern Atlantic Flyway

Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2022
North American waterfowl conservation, management, and harvest regulation are delegated across administrative flyways and primarily guided by breeding population estimates.
Tori D. Mezebish, Glenn H. Olsen, Michele Goodman, Frank Rohwer, Mark D. McConnell   +4 more
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Spatio-temporal dynamics of global H5N1 outbreaks match bird migration patterns

Geospatial Health, 2009
The global spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in poultry, wild birds and humans, poses a significant pandemic threat and a serious public health risk.
Yali Si, Andrew K. Skidmore, Tiejun Wang, Willem F. de Boer, Pravesh Debba, Albert G. Toxopeus, Lin Li, Herbert H.T. Prins   +7 more
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Prospects for monitoring bird migration along the East Asian‐Australasian Flyway using weather radar

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2023
Each year, billions of birds migrate across the globe, and interpretation of weather radar signals is increasingly being used to document the spatial and temporal migration patterns in Europe and America. Such approaches are yet to be applied in the East
Xu Shi, Cheng Hu, Joshua Soderholm, Jason Chapman, Huafeng Mao, Kai Cui, Zhijun Ma, Dongli Wu, Richard A. Fuller   +8 more
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Chennai flyways: birds, biodiversity, and ecological decay

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2022
The city of Chennai in southern India lies directly under one of the most significant global flyways for migratory birds. Over the last forty years, however, this intricate regional topography of lakes and watercourses that supports millions of birds and other organisms has been drastically reduced.
openaire   +1 more source

Accounting for animal movement during aerial imaging surveys

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Animals are not stationary during aerial surveys; if their movements are related to the movement of the aerial platform, then bias can be introduced into subsequent population count estimates. We sought to establish a framework for assessing the impacts of animal movement on count error and platform bias by comparing aggregated counts and relative ...
Rowan L. Converse, Christopher D. Lippitt, Steven E. Sesnie, David R. Stewart, Matthew J. Butler, Grant M. Harris   +5 more
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Drivers of the spatiotemporal dynamics of the local breeding population of the endangered Scaly-sided Mergansers Mergus squamatus

Global Ecology and Conservation
Scaly-sided Merganser is an endangered species confined to eastern Asia, primarily breeding in southeast Russia and northeast China. Its breeding range is quite large, with limited information on population dynamics.
Qing Zeng, Diana Solovyeva, Sergey Vartanyan, Peizhong Liu, Yangsirui Zhang, Olga Prokopenko, Cai Lu, Li Wen, Guangchun Lei   +8 more
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