Overwintering Cranes, Waders, and Shorebirds versus Ducks and Coots Showed Contrasting Long-Term Population Trends in Caohai Wetland in Guizhou Province, China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Data Collection
2.3. Waterbird Surveys
2.4. Data Analysis
2.5. Waterbird Population Trends
2.6. Changes in Community Diversity
2.7. Dynamic Analysis of Rare and Endangered Species
3. Results
3.1. Long-Term Changes in Overwintering Waterbird Abundance
3.2. Temporal Diversity of Overwintering Waterbird
3.3. Population Dynamics of Cranes, Rare and Endangered Waterbirds
4. Discussion
4.1. Population Trajectories in Wintering Waterbirds
4.2. Temporal Diversity of Wintering Waterbirds
4.3. The Status of Rare and Endangered Species in Caohai Wetland
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Zhang, J.; Cao, H.-Q.; Hu, C.-S.; Su, H.-J. Overwintering Cranes, Waders, and Shorebirds versus Ducks and Coots Showed Contrasting Long-Term Population Trends in Caohai Wetland in Guizhou Province, China. Diversity 2023, 15, 985. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15090985
Zhang J, Cao H-Q, Hu C-S, Su H-J. Overwintering Cranes, Waders, and Shorebirds versus Ducks and Coots Showed Contrasting Long-Term Population Trends in Caohai Wetland in Guizhou Province, China. Diversity. 2023; 15(9):985. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15090985
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhang, Jiao, He-Qin Cao, Can-Shi Hu, and Hai-Jun Su. 2023. "Overwintering Cranes, Waders, and Shorebirds versus Ducks and Coots Showed Contrasting Long-Term Population Trends in Caohai Wetland in Guizhou Province, China" Diversity 15, no. 9: 985. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15090985