Demographic response of Piping Plovers suggests that engineered habitat restoration is no match for natural riverine processes

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关键词: Charadrius melodus;    Missouri River;    flooding;    habitat creation;    riparian ecosystem;    Piping Plover;   

DOI  :  10.1650/CONDOR-17-93.1

学科分类：动物科学

来源: Central Ornithology Publication Office

【 摘 要 】

ABSTRACT Globally, riparian ecosystems are in decline due to anthropogenic modifications, including damming. Reduced frequency and altered timing of flood events decreases sandbar deposition, which reduces habitat for sandbar-breeding birds, including the threatened Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus). In response to limited breeding habitat and small populations, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed 255 ha of sandbar habitat on the Missouri River, USA, from 2004 to 2009. During the breeding seasons of 2010 and 2011, historically high flows resulted in the creation of 1,046 ha of suitable sandbar habitat on the Missouri River. We compared the demographic responses of Piping Plovers to this anthropogenic and natural habitat creation. We found that demographic parameters, including nest success (x̄preflood = 0.45 ± 0.02 SE vs. x̄postflood = 0.74 ± 0.02 SE), prefledging chick survival (x̄preflood = 0.39 ± 0.09 SE vs. x̄postflood = 0.65 ± 0.03 SE), and hatch-year survival (x̄preflood = 0.16 ± 0.03 SE v...

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