Combining modern tracking data and historical records improves understanding of the summer habitats of the Eastern Lesser White‐fronted Goose Anser erythropus

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Haitao Tian, Diana Solovyeva, Gleb Danilov, Sergey Vartanyan, Li Wen, Jialin Lei, Cai Lu, Peter Bridgewater, Guangchun Lei, Qing Zeng
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; eastern population; GPS tracking; Lesser White‐fronted Goose Anser erythropus; species distribution modeling; summer range; Ecology; QH540-549.5; Indigirka; Kolyma; Laptev Sea; Anser erythropus; Chukotka; laptev; lena delta; lesser white-fronted goose
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7310; https://doaj.org/article/a27f8090b8f446beb74092539fc135c7

Abstract The Lesser White‐fronted Goose (Anser erythropus), smallest of the “gray” geese, is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and protected in all range states. There are three populations, with the least studied being the Eastern population, shared between Russia and China. The extreme rem...