Focusing on rapid urbanization areas can control the rapid loss of migratory water bird habitats in China

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	Focusing on rapid urbanization areas can control the rapid loss of migratory water bird habitats in China
	Zhang, Lu; Ouyang, Zhiyun
刊名	GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
	2019-10-01
卷号	20 页码:-
关键词	China Coastal zone Habitat loss Migratory water bird
ISSN号	2351-9894
英文摘要	Over 240 migratory water bird species depend on China's 18,000 km coastline as a vital stopover area. However, the rapid loss of natural wetlands has threatened this seasonal water bird migration over the last few decades. In the present study, to improve our understanding of the pattern and amount of habitat loss in key stopover areas (KSAs) and the spatial covariance between habitat loss and economic development, we conducted a spatially explicit evaluation of coastal habitat loss in KSAs and explored its relationship with social and economic dynamics along the China coast by integrating high-spatial resolution satellite imagery with an updated coastal water bird investigation data set. The remote sensing survey detected a habitat loss percentage of 19.4% in the KSAs during 2000 and 2010. Aquaculture, urbanization, and land reclamation were responsible for the most severe disturbances to coastal habitats. These results demonstrate that the losses of wetland habitats in the KSAs in Chinese coastal areas are more severe than those in other coastal areas even though more protective measures have been implemented in these areas. Risk-based analysis showed that the risk of habitat loss was greatest in undeveloped regions with rich natural wetland and large populations, thereby demonstrating the critical importance of shifting the focus of water bird conservation to these regions to ensure the conservation of migratory water birds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. These findings disagree with the hypothesis that more habitats are lost when the economy is more developed. Therefore, we suggest that focusing conservation decisions on areas undergoing urbanization might improve the effectiveness of conservation measures given the pressures due to various forms of wetland exploitation. (c) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.rcees.ac.cn/handle/311016/42415]
专题	生态环境研究中心_城市与区域生态国家重点实验室
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Res Ctr Ecoenvironm Sci, State Key Lab Urban & Reg Ecol, Beijing 100085, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Lu,Ouyang, Zhiyun. Focusing on rapid urbanization areas can control the rapid loss of migratory water bird habitats in China[J]. GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION,2019,20:-.
APA	Zhang, Lu,&Ouyang, Zhiyun.(2019).Focusing on rapid urbanization areas can control the rapid loss of migratory water bird habitats in China.GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION,20,-.
MLA	Zhang, Lu,et al."Focusing on rapid urbanization areas can control the rapid loss of migratory water bird habitats in China".GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION 20(2019):-.