Response of Anatidae Abundance to Environmental Factors in the Middle and Lower Yangtze River Floodplain, China

• Published in: Sustainability
• Main Authors: Qiang Jia, Yong Zhang, Lei Cao
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Anatidae; Yangtze; environmental factors; GAMMs; water planning; Single Lake; lesser white-fronted goose; Tundra; Tundra Swan
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236814

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...