Recently created man-made habitats in Doñana provide alternative wintering space for the threatened continental European black-tailed godwit population
Over the last decades the Continental European population of black-tailed godwits, Limosa limosa limosa, has shown steep declines as a consequence of agricultural intensification on the breeding grounds. Although numbers have also declined in their traditional wintering areas in West-Africa, in the...
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ftunigroningenpu:oai:pure.rug.nl:publications/6c172740-c087-4490-b059-decbfca9d894 2024-09-15T18:41:37+00:00 Recently created man-made habitats in Doñana provide alternative wintering space for the threatened continental European black-tailed godwit population Márquez-Ferrando, Rocío Figuerola, Jordi Hooijmeijer, Jos Piersma, Theunis 2014-03 https://hdl.handle.net/11370/6c172740-c087-4490-b059-decbfca9d894 https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/6c172740-c087-4490-b059-decbfca9d894 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2014.01.022 eng eng https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/6c172740-c087-4490-b059-decbfca9d894 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Márquez-Ferrando , R , Figuerola , J , Hooijmeijer , J & Piersma , T 2014 , ' Recently created man-made habitats in Doñana provide alternative wintering space for the threatened continental European black-tailed godwit population ' , Biological Conservation , vol. 171 , pp. 127-135 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2014.01.022 Land-use changes Black-tailed godwits Non-breeding season Artificial wetlands Extensive fish farming Rice fields GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE PALEARCTIC MIGRANT BIRDS LIMOSA-LIMOSA-LIMOSA LONG-TERM CHANGES SOUTH-WEST SPAIN CLIMATE-CHANGE CONSERVATION CHALLENGES WATERBIRD POPULATIONS CONSERVING WATERBIRDS article 2014 ftunigroningenpu https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2014.01.022 2024-06-24T15:34:28Z Over the last decades the Continental European population of black-tailed godwits, Limosa limosa limosa, has shown steep declines as a consequence of agricultural intensification on the breeding grounds. Although numbers have also declined in their traditional wintering areas in West-Africa, in the Doñana wetlands of southwestern Spain high nonbreeding numbers have persisted. Here we provide a long-term (35 year, 1977–2011) analysis of godwit numbers in Doñana. In fact, from the mid 1990s there has been a steep increase in numbers so that the fraction of godwits along this flyway that winters in Doñana increased from 4% in the late 1980s to 23% in 2011. These changes were not correlated with climatic conditions in Spain, nor in Sahel, but they were associated with changes in habitat availability – mainly an increase in man-made artificial wetlands. Commercial fish-farms and rice fields provide alternative habitats to the original seasonal marshlands for daytime roosting (mainly in the fish ponds) or nocturnal foraging (probably rice fields in addition to fish ponds). For migrating waterbirds, degradations of natural wetlands can thus be compensated by man-made alternative habitats. As the availability especially of such man-made areas is highly sensitive to short-term political/economic driven decision-making, they should be given greater consideration in global conservation plans. Article in Journal/Newspaper black-tailed godwit Limosa limosa University of Groningen research database Biological Conservation 171 127 135 |
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Land-use changes Black-tailed godwits Non-breeding season Artificial wetlands Extensive fish farming Rice fields GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE PALEARCTIC MIGRANT BIRDS LIMOSA-LIMOSA-LIMOSA LONG-TERM CHANGES SOUTH-WEST SPAIN CLIMATE-CHANGE CONSERVATION CHALLENGES WATERBIRD POPULATIONS CONSERVING WATERBIRDS |
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Land-use changes Black-tailed godwits Non-breeding season Artificial wetlands Extensive fish farming Rice fields GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE PALEARCTIC MIGRANT BIRDS LIMOSA-LIMOSA-LIMOSA LONG-TERM CHANGES SOUTH-WEST SPAIN CLIMATE-CHANGE CONSERVATION CHALLENGES WATERBIRD POPULATIONS CONSERVING WATERBIRDS Márquez-Ferrando, Rocío Figuerola, Jordi Hooijmeijer, Jos Piersma, Theunis Recently created man-made habitats in Doñana provide alternative wintering space for the threatened continental European black-tailed godwit population |
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Land-use changes Black-tailed godwits Non-breeding season Artificial wetlands Extensive fish farming Rice fields GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE PALEARCTIC MIGRANT BIRDS LIMOSA-LIMOSA-LIMOSA LONG-TERM CHANGES SOUTH-WEST SPAIN CLIMATE-CHANGE CONSERVATION CHALLENGES WATERBIRD POPULATIONS CONSERVING WATERBIRDS |
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Over the last decades the Continental European population of black-tailed godwits, Limosa limosa limosa, has shown steep declines as a consequence of agricultural intensification on the breeding grounds. Although numbers have also declined in their traditional wintering areas in West-Africa, in the Doñana wetlands of southwestern Spain high nonbreeding numbers have persisted. Here we provide a long-term (35 year, 1977–2011) analysis of godwit numbers in Doñana. In fact, from the mid 1990s there has been a steep increase in numbers so that the fraction of godwits along this flyway that winters in Doñana increased from 4% in the late 1980s to 23% in 2011. These changes were not correlated with climatic conditions in Spain, nor in Sahel, but they were associated with changes in habitat availability – mainly an increase in man-made artificial wetlands. Commercial fish-farms and rice fields provide alternative habitats to the original seasonal marshlands for daytime roosting (mainly in the fish ponds) or nocturnal foraging (probably rice fields in addition to fish ponds). For migrating waterbirds, degradations of natural wetlands can thus be compensated by man-made alternative habitats. As the availability especially of such man-made areas is highly sensitive to short-term political/economic driven decision-making, they should be given greater consideration in global conservation plans. |
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Márquez-Ferrando, Rocío Figuerola, Jordi Hooijmeijer, Jos Piersma, Theunis |
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Márquez-Ferrando, Rocío Figuerola, Jordi Hooijmeijer, Jos Piersma, Theunis |
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Recently created man-made habitats in Doñana provide alternative wintering space for the threatened continental European black-tailed godwit population |
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Recently created man-made habitats in Doñana provide alternative wintering space for the threatened continental European black-tailed godwit population |
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Recently created man-made habitats in Doñana provide alternative wintering space for the threatened continental European black-tailed godwit population |
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Recently created man-made habitats in Doñana provide alternative wintering space for the threatened continental European black-tailed godwit population |
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Recently created man-made habitats in Doñana provide alternative wintering space for the threatened continental European black-tailed godwit population |
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recently created man-made habitats in doñana provide alternative wintering space for the threatened continental european black-tailed godwit population |
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https://hdl.handle.net/11370/6c172740-c087-4490-b059-decbfca9d894 https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/6c172740-c087-4490-b059-decbfca9d894 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2014.01.022 |
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Márquez-Ferrando , R , Figuerola , J , Hooijmeijer , J & Piersma , T 2014 , ' Recently created man-made habitats in Doñana provide alternative wintering space for the threatened continental European black-tailed godwit population ' , Biological Conservation , vol. 171 , pp. 127-135 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2014.01.022 |
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