Changes in habitat suitability influences non-breeding distribution of waterbirds in central Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://wildfowl.wwt.org.uk/index.php/wildfowl/article/view/2668" target="_blank" >https://wildfowl.wwt.org.uk/index.php/wildfowl/article/view/2668</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12559" target="_blank" >10.1111/ibi.12559</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Changes in habitat suitability influences non-breeding distribution of waterbirds in central Europe

Original language description

Waterbird species have different requirements with respect to their nonbreeding areas, aiming to survive and gain condition during the nonbreeding period. Nonbreeding areas selection could change over time and space driven by climate change and the habitat requirements of the species. To contribute to the explanation of the mechanism shaping nonbreeding area selection, we provide site specific analyses of distributional changes in wintering waterbirds in central Europe, located at the centre of its flyways. We use wintering waterbirds as a highly dynamic model group monitored on a long term scale over 50 years. We identified species habitat requirements and changes in habitat use at the level of 733 individual nonbreeding (specifically wintering) sites for 12 waterbird species using citizen science monitoring data. We calculated site specific mean numbers and estimated site specific trends in numbers. The site specific approach revealed a general effect of site mean winter temperature (seven out of 12 species), wetland type (all species) and land cover (all species) on site specific numbers. We found increasing site specific trends in numbers in the northern and eastern part of the study area (Mute Swan, Eurasian Teal, Common Pochard, Great Cormorant and Eurasian Coot). Common Merganser, Great Cormorant, Grey Heron, Common Pochard, Eurasian Coot and Common Moorhen increased their site specific numbers on standing waters. The site specific dynamics of bird numbers helped us to identify general preference for sites reducing winter harshness (warmer areas, running waters and more wetlands in the site vicinity), as well as indicate climate driven changes in spatial use of wintering sites (northern and northeastern range changes and changes in preference for industrial waters. The fine scale approach would be able to point out large scale range and distribution shifts regardless limited availability of large scale datasets.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10615 - Ornithology

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

IBIS

ISSN

0019-1019

e-ISSN

1474-919X

Volume of the periodical

160

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

582-596

UT code for WoS article

000434356700007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85039150221