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Areas of high diversity for the world’s inland-breeding waterbirds

Biodiversity and Conservation, 2013
Waterbirds are a globally-distributed, species-rich group of birds that are critically dependent upon wetland habitats. They can be used as ecosystem sentinels for wetlands, which as well as providing ecosystem services and functions essential to humans, are important habitats for a wide range of plant and animal taxa.
Williamson, L, Hudson, M, O'Connell, Mark, Davidson, N, Young, R, Tatsuya, A, Szekely, T   +6 more
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Population trends and community composition of migratory waterbirds in three emerging wetlands of global significance in southwestern Bengal, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2016
We studied the diversity, abundance and population trends in three flourishing wetlands of southern Bengal over 16 years.  These wetlands constituted a major shift from the present scenario of overall wetland deterioration, including monotonous declines ...
T. N. Khan, Anirban Sinha, Prantik Hazra
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Medicinal waterbirds in the traditional healthcare system: an assessment of biodiversity–cultural linkages in Eastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022
Background Eastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is home to a vast range of medicinal and edible waterbird species due to its diverse geographical environment. Waterbird species have been used for various ailments and cultural practices since ancient times, while ...
Qaisar Rahman, Muhammad Sajid Nadeem, Muhammad Umair, Muhammad Altaf, Jian Ni, Arshad Mahmood Abbasi, Muhammad Azhar Jameel, Andrea Pieroni, Muhammad Haroon Hamed, Sana Ashraf, Tasnim Sadaf   +10 more
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An Overview of the Ecological Values of Soumar Wetland on Waterbirds Diversity

zoodiversity, 2023
The diversity and richness of the waterbird community is the main criterion used to classify wetlands as Ramsar and/or IBA sites. This study was carried out in the Soumar wetland (Setif province — northeastукт Algeria) from September 2019 to September 2020. Our aim was to study the ecological values of this wetland and the status of waterbirds.
S. Laroug, M. Houhamdi, M. Bara
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Impacts of habitat modification on the dynamics of waterbird diversity in Guangzhou Haizhu National Wetland Park

Global Ecology and Conservation
The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is a crucial habitat for over 120 species of waterbirds, including migratory species. As a key component of the wetland resources in the PRD, Guangzhou Haizhu National Wetland Park (GHNWP) plays a vital role in supporting the ...
Zhouhan Chen, Xiaoshan Fang, Shangjiangfeng Lin, Xuefei Zhang, Dongmei Yu, Yuanzhihong Liu, Xiqing Liu, Huijian Hu   +7 more
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Identifying priority wetlands for the conservation of waterbirds in Wuhan, China

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Given the severe threats affecting waterbirds and the limited resources, it is crucial to identify priority wetlands to optimize conservation efforts for waterbirds. This study aims to prioritize wetlands in Wuhan City based on the diversity, rarity, and
Chuandong Tan, Jingwei Ma, Yusheng Yan, Ge Hong, Xuefei Wu   +4 more
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Genetic diversity, recombination and cross-species transmission of a waterbird gammacoronavirus in the wild

Journal of General Virology, 2023
2.AbstractViruses emerging from wildlife can cause outbreaks in humans and domesticated animals. Predicting the emergence of future pathogens and mitigating their impacts requires an understanding of what shapes virus diversity and dynamics in wildlife reservoirs.
François, Sarah, Nazki, Salik, Vickers, Stephen, Fournié, Guillaume, Perrins, Christopher, Broadbent, Andrew, Pybus, Oliver, Hill, Sarah   +7 more
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Diverse usage of waterbird habitats and spatial management in Yancheng coastal wetlands

Ecological Indicators, 2020
Abstract In recent years, the suitable habitat for waterbirds in the Yancheng coastal wetlands has shown continuous degradation and decreasing dimensions. In this paper, the spatial distribution differences and main environmental variables of the suitable habitats for waterbird guilds were analyzed based on the field survey data and a random forest ...
Cheng Wang, Gang Wang, Lingjun Dai, Hongyu Liu, Yufeng Li, Yi Zhou, Hao Chen, Bin Dong, Shicheng Lv, Yongqiang Zhao   +9 more
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The spread of non‐native species

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global redistribution of species through human agency is one of the defining ecological signatures of the Anthropocene, with biological invasions reshaping biodiversity patterns, ecosystem processes and services, and species interactions globally.
Phillip J. Haubrock, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Irene Martín‐Forés, Stelios Katsanevakis, Ronaldo Sousa, Ismael Soto, Andy J. Green, Antonín Kouba, Teun Everts, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Nadège Belouard, Cang Hui, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, Margaux Boeraeve, Franz Essl, J. Robert Britton   +16 more
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The impact of earlier flood recession on metacommunity diversity of wintering waterbirds at shallow lakes in the middle and lower Yangtze River floodplain

Avian Research, 2023
The hydrological regime in wetlands plays an important role in the process of wintering waterbird metacommunity assemblage. However, increasing frequency of extreme climate and the intensification of human activities, such as the construction of sluices ...
Zhenhua Wei, Lizhi Zhou
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