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Complete mitochondrial genome of little ringed plover Charadrius dubius (Charadriiformes, Charadriidae) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2022 This study encoded the complete mitochondrial genomic sequence of the little ringed plover Charadrius dubius. The mitochondrial genome has a total length of 16,864 bp, consisting of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, two rRNA genes, and a control ...
Dong Yun Lee +12 more
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Morphological characteristics influence the spatial mixing patterns of shorebirds at Shengjin Lake [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 The coexistence of species with similar ecological niches is one of the core interests of community ecology research. However, how functional feeding traits, including bill size and leg length, determine the niche of mixed flocks of shorebird species has
Chao Yu +5 more
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Probing of heavy metals in the feathers of shorebirds of Central Asian Flyway wintering grounds [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 The study is intended to deliver the incidence of heavy metals in the feathers of shorebirds from two important Central Asian Flyway (CAF) migratory shorebirds wintering sites such as the Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary (PWLS) and Pichavaram Mangrove ...
Jeganathan Pandiyan +9 more
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TRADITIONAL RURAL WETLANDS IN HARYANA STATE OF INDIA ARE CURRENTLY CONFRONTING MULTICORNERED THREATS LEADING TO EXTINCTION SOONER THAN LATER [PDF]
Journal of Tropical Life Science, 2012 The most serious threat to traditional rural ponds in Haryana is associated with transformed societal behavioural patterns, ethics, values and life style, amongst several others. The siltation of ponds with adjoining areas, soil coming in with rain water
Rohtash chand Gupta +1 more
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Land, 2023 Human activities are at the origin of anthropogenic threats altering ecosystems at any hierarchical level. To mitigate them, environmental managers develop projects to obtain effective outcomes on biological targets of conservation concern.
Corrado Battisti +4 more
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Movement Ecology, 2023 Background The migratory process in birds consists of alternating periods of flight and fueling. Individuals of some populations make few flights and long stopovers, while others make multiple flights between short stopovers.
Linus Hedh, Anders Hedenström
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Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2020 The inventory of birds was conducted in the years 2005-2010 on the Vistula River section between Dęblin (km 388 of the river) and Podwierzbie (km 435 of the river). The study area includes a southern section of the European Ecological Natura 2000 Site in
Dariusz Bukaciński +2 more
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“Coastal” versus “inland” shorebird species: interlinked fundamental dichotomies between their life- and demographic histories? [PDF]
, 2003 In this contribution I present an extended but testable hypothesis (or “evolutionary scenario”) to explain how and why many life-history features of latitudinal migrant shorebirds, basically characterised by the correlation between habitat choice in the ...
Piersma, Theunis,
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Avian botulism at a sugar beet processing plant inSouth Moravia (Czech Republic)
Veterinární Medicína, 2005 An episode of mortality in waterbirds occurred on a sedimentation reservoir with effluents from the sugar beet processing plant at Hrusovany n.J. (South Moravia, Czech Republic) in summer 2003: tens of black-headed gulls (Larus ridibundus), several ...
Z. Hubalek, V. Skorpikova, D. Horal
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