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An atlas and census of Texas waterbird colonies, 1973-1980
, 1982 358 pgs.From 1973 to 1980, biologists from federal, state, and private organizations directed a cooperative survey and census of waterbird colonies in Texas. Twenty-six species were recorded in more than 300 coastal and inland colonies. With the possible
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Avian ResearchWetland restoration has been increasingly implemented to compensate for the substantial loss of natural wetlands, and consideration of multidimensional biodiversity is essential for evaluating how restoration affects the ecological functioning and ...
Xiangrong Song +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2016 Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater wetland in China, provides critical habitat for wintering waterbirds from the East Asian Flyway; however, landscape drivers of non-uniform bird diversity and abundance are not yet well understood.
Iryna Dronova +3 more
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When variability is not failure: Rethinking wildlife management in nonstationary systems
Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.Departures from historical baselines do not always signal population decline. Under directional environmental change, variability in reproduction, migration, and distribution may instead reflect adaptive responses. Effective conservation requires managers to reinterpret variability, incorporate cognitively and institutionally diverse perspectives, and ...
Victoria J. Dreitz
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Intra-annual compositions and diversity variations of waterbird communities in China
Global Ecology and ConservationWaterbirds are often used as indicators of wetland biodiversity and ecosystem health due to their sensitivity to environmental changes. However, most studies have focused on long-term variations of waterbird communities, while the intra-annual changes ...
Ziqi Li +7 more
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Diet, phenology and body size shape nutrient release by songbirds
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Animals can dramatically alter ecosystem structure and function through the cycling and transport of nutrients in their waste. While birds are particularly capable of influencing nutrient cycles due to their high mobility, abundance, metabolism and functional diversity,
Linsey Chen +2 more
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Deep object detection for waterbird monitoring using aerial imagery
, 2022 Monitoring of colonial waterbird nesting islands is essential to tracking waterbird population trends, which are used for evaluating ecosystem health and informing conservation management decisions.
Arnold, Hank +13 more
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Avian ResearchEnvironmental DNA (eDNA) methods have emerged as a promising tool for studying a broad spectrum of biological taxa. However, metabarcoding studies of avian biodiversity using eDNA have received little attention.
Hongming Shuai +5 more
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Goose herbivory alters soil microbial community functional potential in a sub‐Arctic wetland
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Herbivory alters below‐ground resource dynamics via direct and indirect mechanisms, yet its effects on microbial functional potential remain poorly understood. This limits our understanding of the mechanisms that link animal, plant and microbial functional roles in ...
Jaron Adkins +8 more
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Vegetation and inundation characteristics of waterbird breeding sites in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia [PDF]
Context. The Murray–Darling Basin serves as a crucial habitat for aggregating waterbirds; however, decades of large-scale regulation of rivers and water resources have adversely affected waterbird breeding in the Basin. Aims.
Brandis, KJ ; https://orcid.org/ +2 more
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