Migratory birds generally use one or more stopover sites for rest and/or refuelling during
long-distance migration where a large abundance of diverse species can concentrate into …

Satellite‐based technologies that track individual animal movements enable the map** of
their spatial and temporal patterns of occurrence. This is particularly useful in poorly studied …

Birds are sensitive to environmental change and thus good indicators of biodiversity and
ecosystem health. Because birds fill a variety of functional roles, understanding their …

Many shorebird populations are in decline along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. The
rapid loss of coastal wetlands in the Yellow Sea, which provide critical stop-over sites during …

Organisms cope with environmental stressors by behavioral, morphological, and
physiological adjustments. Documentation of such adjustments in the wild provides …

Distance is a key constraint for animals in moving between suitable habitats, but is this also
the case in staging long-distance migrating shorebirds that habitually cover thousands of …

Wild waterbirds, and especially wild waterfowl, are considered to be a reservoir for avian
influenza viruses, with transmission likely occurring at the agricultural-wildlife interface. In …

Background Coastal saltpans are a common supratidal human-modified wetland habitat
found within many coastal landscape mosaics. Commercial salt production and aquaculture …

Migratory shorebirds are declining in all transequatorial flyways, most rapidly in the East
Asian–Australasian Flyway. Population trends for shorebirds have been derived at a flyway …

The connectivity of habitats along a migratory bird flyway is crucial for the survival of
migratory shorebirds threatened by anthropogenic loss of coastline habitats. A lack of …