Rice fields as alternative foraging grounds: Rising shorebird diversity and abundance despite declines in natural coastal wintering sites
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F25%3A103600" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/25:103600 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113425" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113425</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113425" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113425</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Rice fields as alternative foraging grounds: Rising shorebird diversity and abundance despite declines in natural coastal wintering sites
Original language description
This study investigates the extent to which shorebirds confront habitat degradation at the natural wetlands (mudflats, mangroves, sand beaches) by shifting to adjacent rice fields for foraging. Our results showed an overall decline in shorebird abundance across the southwest coast of India; however, this decline was mostly observed in natural habitat types. In contrast, shorebird diversity and abundance showed more significant positive trends in the adjacent rice fields than these natural habitats. The prey abundance showed a similar trend to shorebird abundance. While mudflats and sand beaches degraded with a decrease in their prey abundance, rice fields play a crucial role as alternative/complementary foraging grounds with increasing amount of food resources for shorebirds. Our results suggest that although the shorebirds shifted to anthropogenic alternative sites with additional food resources, such behavioral adaptations were not sufficient for bending the overall declining trend of their abundance. Agricultural practices like ploughing and flooding of rice fields enhanced the prey availability to the shorebirds which are the key factors that attracted the shorebirds towards these artificial ecosystems. Hence deploying sustainable agricultural practices may add up to conservation efforts to protect the shorebirds species in their alternative wintering and foraging sites.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
ISSN
1470-160X
e-ISSN
1470-160X
Volume of the periodical
173
Issue of the periodical within the volume
APR 2025
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
001462426100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105001567573