Habitat Changes at the Local Scale Have Major Impacts on Waterfowl Populations Across a Migratory Flyway
Miguel de Felipe, Juan A Amat, José Luis Arroyo, Rubén Rodríguez, Carmen Díaz‐Paniagua · 2024
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Description
Miguel de Felipe and co-authors show, in a 2024 study, that the fate of one Spanish marsh echoes across an entire migratory flyway. The Guadalquivir marshes host wintering waterfowl from across the East Atlantic Flyway, and the team joined thirty-eight years of local and international counts with data from over four hundred protected wetlands. They asked whether local conditions track the fortunes of whole populations.
Local conditions do track them. The wintering community has shifted over forty years, from herbivores and one set of dabbling ducks toward another group crossing the Sahara. Nine of fifteen species declined in step with the decay of the natural marshes inside Doñana National Park. The other six answered mainly to global forces such as warmer winters elsewhere. The authors draw a double lesson: read local trends with flyway data in hand, and know that one wetland's care registers at continental scale.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Miguel de Felipe, Juan A Amat, José Luis Arroyo, Rubén Rodríguez, Carmen Díaz‐Paniagua |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 57 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |