Reducing human pressure on farmland could rescue China's declining wintering geese.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While goose populations worldwide benefit from food provided by farmland, China's threatened wintering goose populations have failed to capitalize on farmland. It has been proposed that, due to an exceptionally intense human pressure on Chinese farmland, geese cannot exploit farmland in their wintering sites and hence are confined to their deteriorating natural habitat. If this were true, locally decreasing this human pressure on farmland 'refuges' would represent a promising conservation measure.

Methods

We investigate habitat use of two declining migratory goose species in their core wintering (Yangtze River Floodplain) and stopover (Northeast China Plain) regions, compare the human pressure level at both regions, and adopt a mixed-effect resource selection func

SUBMITTER: Si Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7437007 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature