Rapid population decline in migratory shorebirds relying on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats as stopover sites

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dc.contributor.authorStudds, Colin E.
dc.contributor.authorKendall, Bruce E.
dc.contributor.authorMurray, Nicholas J.
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Howard B.
dc.contributor.authorRogers, Danny I.
dc.contributor.authorClemens, Robert S.
dc.contributor.authorGosbell, Ken
dc.contributor.authorHassell, Chris J.
dc.contributor.authorJessop, Rosalind
dc.contributor.authorMelville, David S.
dc.contributor.authorMilton, David A.
dc.contributor.authorMinton, Clive D.T.
dc.contributor.authorPossingham, Hugh P.
dc.contributor.authorRiegen, Adrian C.
dc.contributor.authorStraw, Phil
dc.contributor.authorWoehler, Eric J.
dc.contributor.authorFuller, Richard A.
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-06T16:22:49Z
dc.date.available2019-03-06T16:22:49Z
dc.date.issued2017-04-13
dc.description.abstractMigratory animals are threatened by human-induced global change. However, little is known about how stopover habitat, essential for refuelling during migration, affects the population dynamics of migratory species. Using 20 years of continent-wide citizen science data, we assess population trends of ten shorebird taxa that refuel on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats, a threatened ecosystem that has shrunk by >65% in recent decades. Seven of the taxa declined at rates of up to 8% per year. Taxa with the greatest reliance on the Yellow Sea as a stopover site showed the greatest declines, whereas those that stop primarily in other regions had slowly declining or stable populations. Decline rate was unaffected by shared evolutionary history among taxa and was not predicted by migration distance, breeding range size, non-breeding location, generation time or body size. These results suggest that changes in stopover habitat can severely limit migratory populations.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipC.J.H. was supported by the major funders of the Global Flyway Network, including BirdLife Netherlands (2007–2012), WWF Netherlands (2010–2014, 2016) and the Spinoza Premium of Netherlands Organization Prize for Scientific Research to Theunis Piersma (2014–2016).en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14895en_US
dc.format.extent7 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2sf91-v2kf
dc.identifier.citationStudds, C. E. et al. Rapid population decline in migratory shorebirds relying on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats as stopover sites. Nat. Commun. 8, 14895 doi: 10.1038/ncomms14895 (2017).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14895
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/12952
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Nature Switzerland AG.en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Geography and Environmental Systems Department Collection
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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dc.subjectanimal migrationsen_US
dc.subjectyellow sea regionen_US
dc.subjectEAAF shorebirdsen_US
dc.subjectmodelling abundance and population trends methoden_US
dc.titleRapid population decline in migratory shorebirds relying on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats as stopover sitesen_US
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