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Activating an artisanal saltpan: tourism crowding in or waterbirds crowding out?
, 2021 Purpose There is an increasing interest in visiting protected areas in the Algarve (Portugal). Tourists are interested in contact with nature activities.
Cancela da Fonseca, Luís +4 more
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Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The increased use of agrochemicals to enhance crop production has had detrimental environmental effects including implication in the sharp decline of North American farmland‐breeding birds. Here, using a combination of deep shotgun metatranscriptomics and pesticide exposure data, we sought to assess whether exposure to cotton (Gossypium spp ...
Serguei V. Drovetski +4 more
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DiversityNatural wetland loss constitutes a primary threat to waterbirds worldwide, increasingly forcing them to rely on expanding artificial wetlands. Extensive underground coal mining across the North China Plain has created numerous subsidence wetlands, which ...
Sen Yang +11 more
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Estimating crippling loss from hunting with multistate models: a case study on northern bobwhites
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Hunting as a recreational pursuit provides an important ecosystem service worldwide. Harvest management plays a vital role in regulating wildlife take to ensure long‐term population sustainability and meet value‐based objectives (e.g. hunter satisfaction). However, managers rarely have complete control or observability of harvest mortality.
Amanda S. Cramer +10 more
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Waterbird nest survival derived from drone surveys
Journal of Field OrnithologyDrone surveys provide accurate estimates of nest abundance and survival for ground-nesting waterbird species, but drones have not been used to estimate survival for waterbirds nesting in a canopied swamp habitat. We compared nest survival of Snowy Egret (
Rostam E Mirzadi, Dale E. Gawlik
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Disturbance tolerance in a Texas waterbird colony.
, 1988 p. 119-122.In the winters of 1983-1984 and 1984-1985, oil wells were drilled adjacent to a waterbird colony on Pelican Island in Galveston Bay, Texas, USA. Drilling was finished on Feb.
Mueller, A.J.; Glass, P.O.
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Review of the Distribution of Waterbirds in Two Tropical coastal Ramsar Lagoons in Ghana, West Africa [PDF]
, 2014 Areview of waterbirds was undertaken in two coastal Ramsar lagoons, namely the Keta and Muni Ramsar sites in Ghana, West Africa, from August 2010 to March 2012 to determine the status of diversity and abundance of key waterbired species that utilize the ...
Ofori-Danson, PK, Lamptey, AM
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Factors influencing wintering turfgrass field use in Atlantic brant
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Atlantic brant Branta bernicla hrota increasingly use turfgrass fields, such as baseball fields and golf courses, throughout their wintering range. Most studies have focused on their primary food source, submerged aquatic vegetation, while studies of other goose species worldwide have examined field use in different contexts, including agricultural ...
David J. Weber +3 more
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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.Reported annual per‐capita harvest of muskrats (PCHM) decreased as wetland complexity (total number of wetland patches) decreased in 13 state and federal wetland areas in the Midwest, USA. Our results support the hypothesis that regional‐scale declines in the abundance of muskrats are likely associated with the losses to wetland habitats throughout the
Tim L. Hiller +5 more
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Journal of Threatened TaxaThe seasonal pattern of species diversity and abundance of waterbirds of the Chambal River in the extent of Mukundra Hills National Park, Rajasthan, India was evaluated. The pre-monsoon (March–April 2021) and post-monsoon surveys (August–September 2021)
Arun George +7 more
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