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Achievements,challenges,and recommendations for waterbird conservation in China's coastal wetlands

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China's coastal wetlands provide breeding,migration stopover,and wintering habitats for about 230 waterbird species,which is more than a quarter of all waterbirds in the world.Large-scale and high intensity human ac-tivities have resulted in serious loss and degradation of coastal wetlands over the past half century,causing population declines in many waterbirds.Through a literature review and expert surveys,this article reviews conservation measures taken in recent decades to protect waterbirds in China's coastal wetlands and provides recommendations for future conservation action from three aspects:policy and administration,habitat conser-vation and management,and multiparty participation.Over the past decades,many conservation legislation,regulations and action plans at the national level and more site-specific measures and interventions have been implemented,with notable improvement in the effectiveness in policy making and multi-stakeholder participa-tion.Accordingly,some threats to waterbirds have been mitigated and many key sites for waterbirds have been designated as strictly protected nature reserves.However,some critical issues still remain,mostly related to habitat conservation and management,such as coastal wetland restoration,control of invasive Spartina alterni-flora,control of environmental pollution,and improvement of artificial habitat quality.We highlight that pro-tecting natural tidal wetlands and improving habitat quality are critical for the conservation of coastal waterbirds,especially those highly dependent on the intertidal wetlands.China has demonstrated strong commitment to ecological conservation and restoration for the future,in terms of both funding and policies for biodiversity and wetland ecosystems.It is important that this commitment to conserve coastal waterbirds is supported continu-ously by science-and evidence-based decisions and actions.

Coastal zoneEast Asian-Australasian FlywayHabitatIntertidal flatManagementShorebird

Zhijun Ma、Chi-Yeung Choi、Xiaojing Gan、Jing Li、Yang Liu、David S.Melville、Tong Mu、Theunis Piersma、Zhengwang Zhang

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Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering,National Observation and Research Station for Wetland Ecosystems of the Yangtze Estuary,Fudan University,Shanghai,200438,China

Division of Natural and Applied Sciences,Environmental Research Centre,Duke Kunshan University,Kunshan,215316,Jiangsu,China

The Paulson Institute Beijing Representative Office,Beijing,100006,China

Spoon-Billed Sandpiper,Shanghai Environmental Protection Technology Co.,Ltd,Shanghai,201100,China

State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol,School of Ecology,Sun Yat-Sen University,Guangzhou,510275,China

Global Flyway Network,Wakefield,7096,New Zealand

Princeton School of Public and International Affairs,Princeton University,Princeton,NJ,08544,USA

NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research,Department of Coastal Systems,P.O.Box 59,1790,AB Den Burg Texel,the Netherlands

BirdEyes,Centre for Global Ecological Change,and Conservation Ecology Group,Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences(GELIFES),University of Groningen,9700,CC Groningen,the Netherlands

CEAAF Center for East Asian-Australasian Flyway Studies,Beijing Forestry University,Qinghua East Road 35,Haidian District,Beijing 100083,China

Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering,School of Life Sciences,Beijing Normal University,Beijing,100875,China

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National Key Research and Development Program of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China

2022YFF13010043183008932170518

2023

10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100123

鸟类学研究(英文版)
北京林业大学

鸟类学研究(英文版)

CSCD北大核心
影响因子：0.553
ISSN：2055-6187
年,卷(期)：2023.14(3)
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