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Land cover and rainfall interact to shape waterbird community composition. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2012
Human land cover can degrade estuaries directly through habitat loss and fragmentation or indirectly through nutrient inputs that reduce water quality. Strong precipitation events are occurring more frequently, causing greater hydrological connectivity between watersheds and estuaries.
Studds CE, DeLuca WV, Baker ME, King RS, Marra PP.   +4 more
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Comparing the community composition of European and eastern Chinese waterbirds and the influence of human factors on the China waterbird community. [PDF]

Ambio, 2011
We compared the European and eastern Chinese waterbird assemblages and checked whether the effects of human disturbance could be detected in the assemblages' composition. For the different Chinese provinces, we expected to find a negative effect of economic development on the mean bird species mass and on the proportion of bentivorous, piscivorous and ...
de Boer WF, Cao L, Barter M, Wang X, Sun M, van Oeveren H, de Leeuw J, Barzen J, Prins HH.   +8 more
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Winter Waterbird Community Composition and Use at Created Wetlands in West Virginia, USA. [PDF]

Scientifica (Cairo), 2017
Information on nonbreeding waterbirds using created wetlands in the Central Appalachian region of the United States is limited. We compared waterbird communities of two managed wetlands, created in 2013 and 2001, in West Virginia. We observed 27 species of waterbirds.
Clipp HL, Peters ML, Anderson JT.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Microbial stowaways: Waterbirds as dispersal vectors of aquatic pro‐ and microeukaryotic communities [PDF]

Journal of Biogeography, 2021
Abstract Aim Waterbirds are important dispersal vectors of multicellular organisms; however, no study to date has focused on their potential role in dispersing aquatic microbial communities. We explicitly studied endozoochory of prokaryotes and unicellular microeukaryotes by waterbirds using ...
Szabó, Beáta, Szabó, Attila, Vad, Csaba F., Boros, Emil, Lukić, Dunja, Ptacnik, Robert, Márton, Zsuzsanna, Horváth, Zsófia   +7 more
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Understanding arid‐region waterbird community dynamics during lake dry‐downs

Ecosphere, 2021
AbstractThe community dynamics of organisms that exhibit multi‐scale responses to habitat change are poorly understood. We quantified changes in species diversity and the functional composition of a waterbird community over two iterations of a repeated transition, the annual drying‐down of arid‐region Lake Ngami, Botswana.
Graeme S. Cumming, Dominic A. W. Henry, Gregory L. Mutumi, Mduduzi Ndlovu   +3 more
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Human activities accelerated the degradation of saline seepweed red beaches by amplifying top‐down and bottom‐up forces [PDF]

, 2018
Salt marshes dominated by saline seepweed (Suaeda heteroptera) provide important ecosystem services such as sequestering carbon (blue carbon), maintaining healthy fisheries, and protecting shorelines. These salt marshes also constitute stunning red beach
Chen, Luzhen, Cong, Pifu, Du, Jinqiu, Hou, Wenhao, Lei, Wei, Li, Zhengjie, Liao, Guoxiang, Lu, Weizhi, Xiao, Jingfeng, Zhang, Jialin, Zhang, Yihui   +10 more
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Can aggregate quarry silt lagoons provide resources for wading birds? [PDF]

, 2017
Wading birds have declined across Europe as the intensification of lowland agriculture has resulted in the loss and degradation of wetland areas. Lowland aggregate extraction sites that incorporate areas of fine, waste sediments deposited in silt lagoons
Day, George, Hull, Susan L., Mayes, William M., Wheeler, Philip M.   +3 more
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Regional Genetic Structure in the Aquatic Macrophyte Ruppia cirrhosa Suggests Dispersal by Waterbirds [PDF]

, 2017
The evolutionary history of the genus Ruppia has been shaped by hybridization, polyploidisation and vicariance that have resulted in a problematic taxonomy. Recent studies provided insight into species circumscription, organelle takeover by hybridization,
A Marchioni-Ortu, A Pérez-Ruzafa, AHL Huiskes, AM Zipperle, C Marco-Méndez, DC Vromans, DH Les, E Kosman, E.A. Serrão, EW Koch, EW Koch, F Alberto, F Alberto, F Dufresne, F Short, FW Allendorf, FW Cidade, G Segelbacher, I Charalambidou, I Serra, J Figuerola, J Gesti, J Martínez-Garrido, J Martínez-Garrido, J. Martínez-Garrido, J. Sánchez-Lizaso, JA Coyer, JF Sampson, JJ Doyle, JL Olsen, JTA Verhoeven, L Airoldi, L Bahri-Sfar, L Excoffier, L Triest, L Triest, L Triest, M Agami, M Huston, M Vallejo-Marin, M. González-Wangüemert, MA Hemminga, MB Davis, NA Rosenberg, NA Santamaría-Gallegos, OE Diekmann, P Borsa, P Clausen, P Dixon, P Viaroli, PG Meirmans, PW Hedrick, R Costanza, R Peakall, R Rouger, R. Bermejo, RA Hughes, RJ Toonen, S Arnaud-Haond, S Cirujano, S Cirujano, S Oliva, S Talavera, S Yu, SCH Barrett, SM Thomaz, T Jombart, T Jombart, TBH Reusch, WJ Kress, Y Ito, Y Ito   +71 more
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Phylogenetic and Functional Structure of Wintering Waterbird Communities Associated with Ecological Differences [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2018
AbstractEcological differences may be related to community component divisions between Oriental (west) and Sino-Japanese (east) realms, and such differences may result in weak geographical breaks in migratory species that are highly mobile. Here, we conducted comparative phylogenetic and functional structure analyses of wintering waterbird communities ...
Xianli Che, Min Zhang, Yanyan Zhao, Qiang Zhang, Qing Quan, Anders Møller, Fasheng Zou   +6 more
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Habitat Quality and Social Behavioral Association Network in a Wintering Waterbirds Community [PDF]

Sustainability, 2021
Migratory waterbirds concentrated in freshwater ecosystems in mosaic environments rely on quality habitats for overwintering. At West Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve (WDLNNR), China, land-use change and hydrology alternation are compounding factors that have affected important wintering areas for migratory waterbirds.
Muhammad Awais Rasool, Muhammad Azher Hassan, Xiaobo Zhang, Qing Zeng, Yifei Jia, Li Wen, Guangchun Lei   +6 more
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