The Far East taiga forest: unrecognized inhospitable terrain for migrating Arctic-nesting waterbirds?

PeerJ

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Xin Wang¹  Lei Cao¹  Inga Bysykatova³  Zhenggang Xu⁴  Sonia Rozenfeld⁵  Wooseog Jeong⁶  Didier Vangeluwe⁷  Yunlin Zhao⁴  Tianhe Xie¹  Kunpeng Yi¹  Anthony David Fox⁸ 

[1] State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences;Institute of Biological Problems of Cryolitozone, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences;Central South University of Forestry and Technology;Bird Ringing Centre of Russia, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences;Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency;Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique;Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University

关键词: East Asian-Australasian Flyway;    Ecological barrier;    Geese;    Satellite tracking;    Siberian crane;    Swans;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.4353

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

The degree of inhospitable terrain encountered by migrating birds can dramatically affect migration strategies and their evolution as well as influence the way we develop our contemporary flyway conservation responses to protect them. We used telemetry data from 44 tagged individuals of four large-bodied, Arctic breeding waterbird species (two geese, a swan and one crane species) to show for the first time that these birds fly non-stop over the Far East taiga forest, despite their differing ecologies and migration routes. This implies a lack of suitable taiga refuelling habitats for these long-distance migrants. These results underline the extreme importance of northeast China spring staging habitats and of Arctic areas prior to departure in autumn to enable birds to clear this inhospitable biome, confirming the need for adequate site safeguard to protect these populations throughout their annual cycle.

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