The Need for Future Wetland Bird Studies: Scales of Habitat use as Input for Ecological Restoration and Spatial Water Management

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Maarten Platteeuw¹  Ruud P.B. Foppen²  Mennobart R. van Eerden¹ 

[1] 1 Rijkswaterstaat Waterdienst, P.O. Box 17, 8200 AA Lelystad, The Netherlands2 Alterra, Green World Research, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands3 present address: SOVON, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands ([e-mail]);

关键词: Water Management;   

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学科分类：动物科学

来源: Nederlandse Ornithologische Unie/Netherlands Ornithological Union

【 摘 要 】

AlloverEurope,wetlandshavedecreasedinsize,losttheiroriginaldynamicsandbecamefragmentedastheconsequenceofaneverincreasinghumanlanduse.Theseprocesseshaveresultedinlossesofnaturevalues,amongwhichdeclinesinmarshlandbirdpopulations.EcologicalrestorationofwetlandsystemsfollowsfrominitiativeslikeEUBirdandHabitatDirectivesandWaterFrameworkDirective,butmaybe,initself,toocostlytobewidelyapplied.MorepromisingperspectivestoreinforcethewetlandpartoftheecologicalnetworkNatura2000mightcomeintofocuswhencombinedwithspatialwatermanagementwhichisprimarilyaimedatmoresustainablesafetyagainstflooding.Inthisway,thewetlandnetworkmayacquireawiderpublicandpoliticalsupport.Knowledgeonscale-relatedhabitatuseofwetlandbirdscanplayaroleintheprocessofspatialplanning.Weillustratethispointbydistinguishingfourlevelsofspatialandtemporalhabitatusebywetlandbirds,andgivingexamplesforeach.Thefourlevelsare:(1)birdsonstopoversitesduringmigration,(2)territorialbreedingbirds,(3)colonialbreedingbirds,and(4)stagingbirdsonwinteringsites.Thisasksforecologicalcoherenceondifferentscales,e.g.ontheinternationallevelofmigrationflyways,ontheregionalleveloflandscapesandonthelocallevelofindividualwetlands.Itisadvocatedthatwetlandecologistsdedicatethemselvesmorespecificallytoquantifyingtherelevantdataonhabitatuseofbirdsoneachofthesescalelevels.Meanwhile,spatialplannersshouldtrytoincorporatethemintotheireffortsinrealisingcombinationsofecologicalrestorationorrehabilitationofwetlandsandsolutionsforsustainablewatermanagement.Thesecombinationsmightturnthetideforsomeseriouslythreatenedspeciesofmarshlandandwetlandbirds.

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