Long-term declines in migratory shorebird abundance in north-east Tasmania

Stilt

Volumn 61, Issue , 2012, Pages 19-29

  Cooper, Ralph ^a   Clemens, Robert ^b   Oliveira, Nuno ^c   Chase, Ashley ^d  

^a BirdLife Tasmania ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c SPEA ^*  (Australia)

^d BirdLife Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864657871     PISSN: 07261888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Alcorn, M., R. Alcorn & M. Fleming. 1994. Wader movements in Australia. Australasian Wader Studies Group Melbourne, Victoria.
2. Amano, T., T. Szekely, K. Koyama, H. Amano & W. J. Sutherland. 2010. A framework for monitoring the status of populations: An example from wader populations in the East Asian-Australasian flyway. Biological Conservation 143: 2238-2247.
3. Barshep, Y., A. Hedenstrom & L. G. Underhill. 2011. Impact of Climate and Predation on Autumn Migration of the Curlew Sandpiper. Waterbirds 34: 1-9.
4. Barter, M. 1992. Changing wader numbers in Swan Bay, Victoria - a cause for concern? Stilt 8-12.
5. Barter, M.A. 2005. Yellow Sea - driven priorities for Australian shorebird researchers. Pp. 158-160. In: Straw, P (Ed.) Status and Conservation of Shorebirds in the East Asian - Australasian Flyway. Proceedings of the Australasian Shorebird Conference, 13-15 December 2003, Canberra, Australia. International Wader Studies 17. Sydney, Australia.
6. Britton, P. & J. Hunter. 2005. Eastern curlew numbers at Port Sorell. Tasmanian Bird Report 31: 5-6.
7. Bryant, S. L. 2002. Conservation assessment of beach nesting and migratory shorebirds in Tasmania. Nature Conservation Branch Department of Primary Industries Water and Environment: NHT No. NWP 11990.
8. Clemens, R. S., B. E. Kendall, J. Guillet & R. A. Fuller. in review. The sub-set of Australian shorebird count data to be of immediate use for comprehunsive trend analysis. Stilt.
9. Close, D. H. 2008. Changes in wader numbers in the Gulf St Vincent, South Australia, 1979-2008. Stilt 54: 24-27.
10. Colwell, M. A. 2010. Shorebird ecology, conservation, and management. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, USA.
11. Cooper, B., R. Cooper & P. E. Duckworth. 1997. Differences in shorebird numbers between the Derwent area and north east Tasmania. Tasmanian Bird Report 25: 25-34.
12. Cooper, R. 1997. Iron Baron - the impact on waders at the George Town Reserve. Tasmanian Bird Report 25: 38-39.
13. Creed, K. E. & M. Bailey. 1998. Decline in Migratory Waders at Pelican Point, Swan River, Western Australia. Stilt 33: 162-175.
14. Creed, K. E. & M. Bailey. 2009. Continuing decline in wader populations at Pelican Point, western Australia, since 1971. Stilt 56: 10-14.
15. Dawes, J. 2011. The declining population of Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea indicates that it may now be endangered in New South Wales. Stilt 60: 9-13.
16. Delany, S. 2003. How many of the world's wader species are declining, and where are the Globally Threatened species? Wader Study Group Bulletin 101/102: 13.
17. Fairfull, S. 1997. BHP Transport Oil Spill Report to the Tasmanian Government.
18. Goldsworthy, S. D., R. P. Gales, M. Giese & N. Brothers. 2000. Effects of the Iron Baron oil spill on little penguins (Eudyptula minor). I. Estimates of mortality. Wildlife Research 27: 559-571.
19. Gosbell, K. & R. Clemens. 2006. Population monitoring in Australia: some insights after 25 years and future directions. Stilt 50: 162-175.
20. Gosbell, K. & B. Grear. 2005. The Importance of Monitoring Shorebird Utilisation of the Coorong and Surrounding Wetlands in South Australia. Pp. 52-61. In: P. Straw (Ed.). Status and Conservation of Shorebirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway: Proceedings of the Australasian Shorebirds Conference 13-15 December 2003, Canberra, Australia. Wetlands International Global Series 18, International Wader Studies 17, Sydney, Australia.
21. Herrod, A. 2010. Migratory Shorebird monitoring in the Port Phillip Bay (western shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site. Birds Australia Melbourne.
22. Higgins, P. J. & S. J. J. F. Davies. 1996. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, Volume 3 Snipe to Lapwings. Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, Hawthorn East, Australia.
23. Holdsworth, M. C. & S. L. Bryant. 1995. Rescue and rehabilitation of wildlife from the Iron Baron oil spill in northern Tasmania. Tasmanian Naturalist 117: 39-43.
24. IUCN. 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. www.iucnredlist.org. 16 May 2012.
25. Marchant, S. & P. J. Higgins. 1993. Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, Volume 2 Raptors to Lapwings. Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, Hawthorn East, Australia.
26. Milton, D. A. & S. B. Harding. 2011. Death by a thousand cuts - the incremental loss of coastal high tide roosts for shorebirds in Australia: Sandfly Creek Environmental Reserve, central Queensland. Stilt 60: 22-33.
27. Minton, C., P. Dann, A. Ewing, S. Taylor, R. Jessop, P. Anton & R. Clemens. 2012. Trends of shorebirds in Corner Inlet, Victoria, 1982-2011. Stilt 61: 3-18.
28. Moores, N. 2006. South Korea's shorebirds: a review of abundance, distribution, threats and conservation status. Stilt 50: 62-72.
29. Moores, N., D. Rogers, C. H. Koh, Y. K. Ju, R. H. Kim & M. N. Park. 2008. The 2006-2008 Saemangeum shorebird monitoring program report. Birds Korea Busan, South Korea
30. Nebel, S., J. L. Porter & R. T. Kingsford. 2008. Long-term trends in shorebird populations in eastern Australia and impacts of freshwater extraction. Biological Conservation 141: 971-980.
31. Olsen, P., M. Weston, R. Cunningham & A. Silcocks. 2003. The State of Australia's Birds 2003. Wingspan. 13: i-xxi.
32. Pinheiro, J., D. Bates, S. DebRoy, D. Sarkar & R Development Core Team. 2011. nlme: Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models R package version 3.1-102.
33. R Development Core Team. 2011. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Vienna, Austria, URL http://www.Rproject.org/
34. Reid, T. & P. Park. 2003. Continuing decline of Eastern Curlew, Numenius madagascariensis, in Tasmania. Emu 103: 279-283.
35. Rogers, D., C. Hassell, J. Oldland, R. Clemens, A. Boyle & K. Rogers. 2009. Monitoring Yellow Sea Migrants in Australia (MYSMA): North-western Australian shorebird surveys and workshops, December 2008. Arthur Rylah Institute Heidelberg, Victoria.
36. Rogers, D. I., A. Herrod, P. Menkhorst & R. Loyn. 2010a. Local movements of shorebirds and high resolution mapping of shorebird habitat in the Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report Series No. 207. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Heidelberg, VIC.
37. Rogers, D. I., H.-Y. Yang, C. J. Hassell, A. N. Boyle, K. G. Rogers, B. Chen, Z.-W. Zhang & T. Piersma. 2010b. Red Knots (Calidris canutus piersmai and C. c. rogersi) depend on a small threatened staging area in Bohai Bay, China. Emu 110: 307-315.
38. Singor, M. J. C. 2009. Decline in wader numbers on the Swan River, Western Australia between 1981 and 2009. Stilt 55: 3-7.
39. Stuart, A. 2011. Shorebird surveys at Port Stephens, New South Wales, 2004-2011 and comparisons with results from previous surveys. Stilt 60: 14-21.
40. Wilson, H. B., B. E. Kendall, R. A. Fuller, D. A. Milton & H. P. Possingham. 2011. Analyzing Variability and the Rate of Decline of Migratory Shorebirds in Moreton Bay, Australia. Conservation Biology 25: 758-766.
41. Wilson, J. R. 2001. The Australasian Wader Studies Group Population Monitoring Project: Where to now? Perspectives from the Chair. Stilt 39: 13-26.
42. Wood, S. N. 2003. Thin-plate regression splines. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (B) 65 (1): 95-114.
43. Wood, S. N. 2004. Stable and efficient multiple smoothing parameter estimation for generalized additive models. Journal of the American Statistical Association 99: 673-686.
44. Wood, S. N. 2006. Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R. Chapman and Hall / CRC, Boca Raton, FL, USA.
45. Zöckler, C. C., S. Delaney & W. Hagemeijer. 2003. Wader populations are declining worldwide - how will we elucidate the reasons? Wader Study Group Bulletin 100: 202-211.
46. Zuur, A. F., E. N. Leno, N. J. Walker, A. A. Saveliev & G. M. Smith. 2009. Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R. Springer, New York, USA.