Artificial Wetlands as Breeding Habitats for Colonial Waterbirds within Central Romania

Prioritizing Wetlands for Waterbirds in a Boom and Bust System: Waterbird Refugia and Breeding in the Murray-Darling Basin

Dryland rivers have considerable flow variability, producing complex ecosystems, processes, and communities of organisms that vary over space and time. They are also among the more vulnerable of the world's ecosystems. A key strategy for conservation of dryland rivers is identifying and maintaining key sites for biodiversity conservation, particularly protecting the quantity and quality of flow...

Considerations for Monitoring Breeding Birds in Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands

One goal in indicator development is to implement long-term monitoring that will track the relative condition of the indicator over time. Among the first steps in establishing a monitoring program is to develop a sampling design that adequately characterizes the indicator to be monitored as well as the cost-effectiveness of the program. We used breeding bird data collected in Lake Superior and ...

Water level affects availability of optimal feeding habitats for threatened migratory waterbirds

Extensive ephemeral wetlands at Poyang Lake, created by dramatic seasonal changes in water level, constitute the main wintering site for migratory Anatidae in China. Reductions in wetland area during the last 15 years have led to proposals to build a Poyang Dam to retain high winter water levels within the lake. Changing the natural hydrological system will affect waterbirds dependent on water ...

The importance of the peatlands of the Upper Volga area as habitats for breeding waders

In the Tver region 31 wader species were recorded and of these, 19 species breed there, 11 species are considered rare and ten of these rare species breed in different peatlands. Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria and Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus breed only on raised bogs, Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis and Great Snipe Gallinago media breed only on fens. Ruff Philomachus pugnax, Redshank Tring...

The flyway approach to the conservation and wise use of waterbirds and wetlands: A Training Kit