Impacts of tidal land reclamation in Bohai Bay, China: Ongoing losses of critical Yellow Sea waterbird staging and wintering sites

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 241-259

  Yang, Hong Yan ^a,b   Chen, Bing ^c   Barter, Mark ^d   Piersma, Theunis ^b,e   Zhou, Chun Fa ^a   Li, Feng Shan ^f   Zhang, Zheng Wang ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Building 1 ^*  (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LAND RECLAMATION; MIGRATION ROUTE; MUDFLAT; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MODELING; WADER;

BOHAI BAY; CHINA;

EID: 82555165504     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270911000086     Document Type: Article

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