Achievements, challenges, and recommendations for waterbird conservation in China's coastal wetlands

Avian Research, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 14, С. 100123 - 100123

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2023

China's coastal wetlands provide breeding, migration stopover, and wintering habitats for about 230 waterbird species, which is more than a quarter of all waterbirds in the world. Large-scale high intensity human activities have resulted serious loss degradation over past half century, causing population declines many waterbirds. Through literature review expert surveys, this article reviews conservation measures taken recent decades to conserve provides recommendations future action from three aspects: policy administration, habitat management, multiparty participation. Over decades, legislation, regulations plans at national level site-specific interventions been implemented, with notable improvement effectiveness making multi-stakeholder Accordingly, some threats mitigated key sites designated as strictly protected nature reserves. However, critical issues still remain, mostly related such wetland restoration, control invasive Spartina alterniflora, environmental pollution, artificial quality. We highlight that protecting natural tidal improving quality are waterbirds, especially those highly dependent on intertidal wetlands. China has demonstrated strong commitment ecological restoration future, terms both funding policies biodiversity ecosystems. It important supported continuously by science- evidence-based decisions actions.

Язык: Английский

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Predicting resilience of migratory birds to environmental change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 121(19)

Опубликована: Апрель 22, 2024

The pace and scale of environmental change represent major challenges to many organisms. Animals that move long distances, such as migratory birds, are especially vulnerable since they need chains intact habitat along their routes. Estimating the resilience species changes assists in targeting conservation efforts. We developed a migration modeling framework predict past (1960s), present (2010s), future (2060s) optimal strategies across five shorebird (Scolopacidae) within East Asian-Australasian Flyway, which has seen deterioration loss over last century, compared these predictions empirical tracks from present. Our model captured identified migrations needed respond climate change. Notably, larger species, with single or few stopover sites, establish new routes strategies, while smaller can buffer by redistributing areas novel less-used sites. Comparing also indicates stronger for adaptations continue migrate closer past, before accelerated. study not only quantifies vulnerability face global but explicitly reveals extent required sustain migrations. This provides tool planning accommodate needs species.

Язык: Английский

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A framework to quantitatively assess the influence of land use and land cover on coastal wetland hydrological connectivity from a landscape resistance perspective

The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 922, С. 171140 - 171140

Опубликована: Фев. 22, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Coastal wetland resilience through local, regional and global conservation

Опубликована: Янв. 15, 2025

Coastal wetlands, including tidal marshes, mangrove forests and flats, support the livelihoods of millions people. Understanding resilience coastal wetlands to increasing number intensity anthropogenic threats (such as habitat conversion, pollution, fishing climate change) can inform what conservation actions will be effective. In this Review, we synthesize their through lens scale. Over decades centuries, have unfolded across local, regional global scales, reducing both extent quality wetlands. The existing is driven by quality, which modulated physical conditions sediment supply) ecological species interactions operating from local scales). Protection restoration efforts, however, are often localized focus on future depend an improved understanding resilience, society's enhance different scales. important ecosystems around world under threat. This Review explores multiple drivers change priorities.

Язык: Английский

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Increased wind flood frequency leads to decreased nest success of endangered waders in managed shore meadows

Biological Conservation, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 302, С. 110970 - 110970

Опубликована: Янв. 28, 2025

Язык: Английский

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