Long-term changes in habitat selection of wintering waterbirds in a changing landscape

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.3161/00016454AO2015.50.2.001" target="_blank" >http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.3161/00016454AO2015.50.2.001</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3161/00016454AO2015.50.2.001" target="_blank" >10.3161/00016454AO2015.50.2.001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Long-term changes in habitat selection of wintering waterbirds in a changing landscape

Original language description

Recent studies showed that climate changes shape species distribution and could cause range shifts in the flyway level of the species. Here, we demonstrated changes in species habitat selection as a response to weather severity in twelve most abundant wintering waterbird species with prevailing increase in numbers during three investigated periods (1972-1978, 1987-1993 and 2003-2009). We used wintering waterbird counts from 93 sites throughout the Czech Republic from mid-January term as the coldest period of winter when the effect of thermoregulation on wintering waterbirds distribution is most apparent. We recorded no significant changes in weather severity in three investigated periods in our study area, and hence we considered the effect of preference of cold weather refuge sites, i.e. habitats which can reduce negative effect of cold weather (running waters, urban area and extensive water surface area). We found prevailing effect of weather severity in the first period what may show thermoregulatory effects being expressed by weather severity on species habitat selection in the next period in six of the twelve investigated species (Mute Swan Cygnus olor, Common Pochard Aythya ferina, Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula, Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis, Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus and Common Coot Fulica atra). In the face of recent climate change and in spite of the increasing importance of wetlands in the Czech Republic for wintering waterbirds, the suitability of these sites for wintering is likely temperature-dependent. Thus, the preference of cold weather refuges reducing the effect of winter harshness becomes important in individual species.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DO - Protection of landscape

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Ornithologica

ISSN

0001-6454

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

50

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

127-138

UT code for WoS article

000371447400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84958158573