The impacts of water level fluctuations of East Dongting Lake on habitat suitability of migratory birds

Understanding responses of habitat suitability of migratory birds to the water level is significant for providing countermeasures of wetland protection. East Dongting Lake serves critical wintering habitat for migratory birds along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. However, the response relationsh...

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Autores principales:	Yongwei Zhu, Hongxiang Wang, Wenxian Guo
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Three Gorge Dam Ecological water level Habitat suitability Migratory birds Dongting Lake Wetland Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9b02d317f5b84e13821d39063fb483862021-12-01T05:01:49ZThe impacts of water level fluctuations of East Dongting Lake on habitat suitability of migratory birds1470-160X10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108277https://doaj.org/article/9b02d317f5b84e13821d39063fb483862021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21009420https://doaj.org/toc/1470-160XUnderstanding responses of habitat suitability of migratory birds to the water level is significant for providing countermeasures of wetland protection. East Dongting Lake serves critical wintering habitat for migratory birds along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. However, the response relationships between the water level and the weighted usable area (WUA) for migratory birds remain largely unknown. Therefore, we established a habitat suitability model of migratory birds based on the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and recognized the change of WUA by comparing the transition of land-cover of similar hydrologic years before and after the operation of Three Gorge Dam (TGD). The results demonstrated that (1) the ecological water level of migratory birds in East Dongting Lake is 20.47–21.55 m. (2) Compared with the pre-TGD period, the start date of the ecological water level advanced by 25 days, the duration of the ecological water level increased by 16 days, and the fluctuation range of water level was more concentrated near the ecological water level, indicating that the TGD provides benefits for the migratory birds. (3) The most prominent transition among changes of land-cover was that the Reed beach (RB) (155.07 km2) and Marsh land (ML) (150.66 km2) changed to Tender Marsh land (TML) during dry hydrologic years, and the RB (171.90 km2) and ML (174.30 km2) changed to TML during normal hydrologic years. The findings show that water level changes habitat suitability of migratory birds by changing vegetation distribution at different elevations.Yongwei ZhuHongxiang WangWenxian GuoElsevierarticleThree Gorge DamEcological water levelHabitat suitabilityMigratory birdsDongting Lake WetlandEcologyQH540-549.5ENEcological Indicators, Vol 132, Iss , Pp 108277- (2021)
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topic	Three Gorge Dam Ecological water level Habitat suitability Migratory birds Dongting Lake Wetland Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	Three Gorge Dam Ecological water level Habitat suitability Migratory birds Dongting Lake Wetland Ecology QH540-549.5 Yongwei Zhu Hongxiang Wang Wenxian Guo The impacts of water level fluctuations of East Dongting Lake on habitat suitability of migratory birds
description	Understanding responses of habitat suitability of migratory birds to the water level is significant for providing countermeasures of wetland protection. East Dongting Lake serves critical wintering habitat for migratory birds along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. However, the response relationships between the water level and the weighted usable area (WUA) for migratory birds remain largely unknown. Therefore, we established a habitat suitability model of migratory birds based on the Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and recognized the change of WUA by comparing the transition of land-cover of similar hydrologic years before and after the operation of Three Gorge Dam (TGD). The results demonstrated that (1) the ecological water level of migratory birds in East Dongting Lake is 20.47–21.55 m. (2) Compared with the pre-TGD period, the start date of the ecological water level advanced by 25 days, the duration of the ecological water level increased by 16 days, and the fluctuation range of water level was more concentrated near the ecological water level, indicating that the TGD provides benefits for the migratory birds. (3) The most prominent transition among changes of land-cover was that the Reed beach (RB) (155.07 km2) and Marsh land (ML) (150.66 km2) changed to Tender Marsh land (TML) during dry hydrologic years, and the RB (171.90 km2) and ML (174.30 km2) changed to TML during normal hydrologic years. The findings show that water level changes habitat suitability of migratory birds by changing vegetation distribution at different elevations.
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title	The impacts of water level fluctuations of East Dongting Lake on habitat suitability of migratory birds
title_short	The impacts of water level fluctuations of East Dongting Lake on habitat suitability of migratory birds
title_full	The impacts of water level fluctuations of East Dongting Lake on habitat suitability of migratory birds
title_fullStr	The impacts of water level fluctuations of East Dongting Lake on habitat suitability of migratory birds
title_full_unstemmed	The impacts of water level fluctuations of East Dongting Lake on habitat suitability of migratory birds
title_sort	impacts of water level fluctuations of east dongting lake on habitat suitability of migratory birds
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2021
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The impacts of water level fluctuations of East Dongting Lake on habitat suitability of migratory birds

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