Response of Anatidae Abundance to Environmental Factors in the Middle and Lower Yangtze River Floodplain, China
Understanding and predicting animal distribution is one of the most elementary objectives in ecology and conservation biology. Various environmental factors, such as habitat area, habitat quality, and climatic factors, play important roles in shaping animal distribution. However, the mechanism under...
Published in: | Sustainability |
---|---|
Main Authors: | , , |
Format: | Text |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
2019
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236814 |
id |
ftmdpi:oai:mdpi.com:/2071-1050/11/23/6814/ |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftmdpi:oai:mdpi.com:/2071-1050/11/23/6814/ 2023-08-20T04:07:52+02:00 Response of Anatidae Abundance to Environmental Factors in the Middle and Lower Yangtze River Floodplain, China Qiang Jia Yong Zhang Lei Cao agris 2019-12-01 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236814 EN eng Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Sustainable Agriculture https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11236814 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sustainability; Volume 11; Issue 23; Pages: 6814 Anatidae Yangtze environmental factors GAMMs water planning Text 2019 ftmdpi https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236814 2023-07-31T22:51:01Z Understanding and predicting animal distribution is one of the most elementary objectives in ecology and conservation biology. Various environmental factors, such as habitat area, habitat quality, and climatic factors, play important roles in shaping animal distribution. However, the mechanism underlying animal distribution remains unclear. Using generalized additive mixed models, we analyzed the effects of environmental factors and years on the population of five Anatidae species: Tundra swan, swan goose, bean goose, greater and lesser white-fronted goose, across their wintering grounds along the Middle and Lower Yangtze River floodplain (MLYRF) during 2001–2016. We found that: (1) All populations decreased except for that of the bean goose. (2) The patch area was not included in any of the best models. (3) NDVI was the most important factor in determining the abundance of grazing geese. (4) Climatic factors had no significant effect on the species in question. Our results suggest that, when compared to habitat area, habitat quality is better in predicting Anatidae distribution on the basin scale. Thus, to better conserve wintering Anatidae, we should keep a sufficiently large area at the single lake, as well as high quality habitat over the whole basin. This might be achieved by developing a more strategic water plan for the MLYRF. Text lesser white-fronted goose Tundra Tundra Swan MDPI Open Access Publishing Single Lake ENVELOPE(-99.525,-99.525,58.442,58.442) Sustainability 11 23 6814 |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
MDPI Open Access Publishing |
op_collection_id |
ftmdpi |
language |
English |
topic |
Anatidae Yangtze environmental factors GAMMs water planning |
spellingShingle |
Anatidae Yangtze environmental factors GAMMs water planning Qiang Jia Yong Zhang Lei Cao Response of Anatidae Abundance to Environmental Factors in the Middle and Lower Yangtze River Floodplain, China |
topic_facet |
Anatidae Yangtze environmental factors GAMMs water planning |
description |
Understanding and predicting animal distribution is one of the most elementary objectives in ecology and conservation biology. Various environmental factors, such as habitat area, habitat quality, and climatic factors, play important roles in shaping animal distribution. However, the mechanism underlying animal distribution remains unclear. Using generalized additive mixed models, we analyzed the effects of environmental factors and years on the population of five Anatidae species: Tundra swan, swan goose, bean goose, greater and lesser white-fronted goose, across their wintering grounds along the Middle and Lower Yangtze River floodplain (MLYRF) during 2001–2016. We found that: (1) All populations decreased except for that of the bean goose. (2) The patch area was not included in any of the best models. (3) NDVI was the most important factor in determining the abundance of grazing geese. (4) Climatic factors had no significant effect on the species in question. Our results suggest that, when compared to habitat area, habitat quality is better in predicting Anatidae distribution on the basin scale. Thus, to better conserve wintering Anatidae, we should keep a sufficiently large area at the single lake, as well as high quality habitat over the whole basin. This might be achieved by developing a more strategic water plan for the MLYRF. |
format |
Text |
author |
Qiang Jia Yong Zhang Lei Cao |
author_facet |
Qiang Jia Yong Zhang Lei Cao |
author_sort |
Qiang Jia |
title |
Response of Anatidae Abundance to Environmental Factors in the Middle and Lower Yangtze River Floodplain, China |
title_short |
Response of Anatidae Abundance to Environmental Factors in the Middle and Lower Yangtze River Floodplain, China |
title_full |
Response of Anatidae Abundance to Environmental Factors in the Middle and Lower Yangtze River Floodplain, China |
title_fullStr |
Response of Anatidae Abundance to Environmental Factors in the Middle and Lower Yangtze River Floodplain, China |
title_full_unstemmed |
Response of Anatidae Abundance to Environmental Factors in the Middle and Lower Yangtze River Floodplain, China |
title_sort |
response of anatidae abundance to environmental factors in the middle and lower yangtze river floodplain, china |
publisher |
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
publishDate |
2019 |
url |
https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236814 |
op_coverage |
agris |
long_lat |
ENVELOPE(-99.525,-99.525,58.442,58.442) |
geographic |
Single Lake |
geographic_facet |
Single Lake |
genre |
lesser white-fronted goose Tundra Tundra Swan |
genre_facet |
lesser white-fronted goose Tundra Tundra Swan |
op_source |
Sustainability; Volume 11; Issue 23; Pages: 6814 |
op_relation |
Sustainable Agriculture https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11236814 |
op_rights |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236814 |
container_title |
Sustainability |
container_volume |
11 |
container_issue |
23 |
container_start_page |
6814 |
_version_ |
1774719794454462464 |