Hydropower is a rapidly developing and globally important source of renewable electricity.
Globally, over 60% of rivers longer than 500 km are already fragmented and thousands of …

Background China is one of the countries with abundant waterbird diversity. Over the past
decades, China's waterbirds have suffered increasing threats from direct and indirect human …

Various aspects of the water qualities of the large lakes in the Yangtze Plain (YP) have been
studied, while the efforts have been spent on one of the most important parameters-water …

Large lakes provide various types of ecosystem services (ESs), of which stocks and
variations induced by hydrological alterations are largely unquantified. The present study …

The operation of the Three Gorges Project (TGP) has influenced the wetland ecosystems
downstream, thereby affecting the distribution of habitats suitable for waterbirds. However …

Background Interannual variation in resource abundance has become more unpredictable,
and food shortages have increasingly occurred in the recent decades. However, compared …

Quantifying the relationship between hydrological regime and habitat availability is the first
step to predict potential impacts of water engineering projects on waterbirds, particularly in …

The complex gut bacterial communities may facilitate the function, distribution, and diversity
of birds. For migratory birds, long-distance traveling poses selection pressures on their gut …

This paper serves as both a review of the latest science on the Poyang Lake wetland
ecosystem and as an introduction to this Special Issue guest-edited by Jun Xu. Poyang Lake …

Urban green infrastructure (UGI) is an important habitat for birds and acts a leading role in
bird diversity conservation. However, the response of bird diversity to UGIs characteristics …