Integrated watershed management: evolution, development and emerging trends

G Wang, S Mang, H Cai, S Liu, Z Zhang… - Journal of Forestry …, 2016 - Springer
Watershed management is an ever-evolving practice involving the management of land,
water, biota, and other resources in a defined area for ecological, social, and economic …

Copula-based probability of concurrent hydrological drought in the Poyang lake-catchment-river system (China) from 1960 to 2013

D Zhang, P Chen, Q Zhang, X Li - Journal of Hydrology, 2017 - Elsevier
Investigation of concurrent hydrological drought events is helpful for understanding the
inherent mechanism of hydrological extremes and designing corresponding adaptation …

Influences of submerged plant collapse on diet composition, breadth, and overlap among four crane species at Poyang Lake, China

J Hou, L Li, Y Wang, W Wang, H Zhan, N Dai, P Lu - Frontiers in Zoology, 2021 - Springer
Background Interannual variation in resource abundance has become more unpredictable,
and food shortages have increasingly occurred in the recent decades. However, compared …

Declines in the tuber‑feeding waterbird guild at Shengjin Lake National Nature Reserve, China–a barometer of submerged macrophyte collapse

AD Fox, L Cao, Y Zhang, M Barter… - Aquatic …, 2011 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
The Yangtze floodplain is globally unique for its extensive ephemeral wetlands, recharged
by summer monsoon precipitation. The annual cycle of inundation and water table recession …

Community structure, abundance variation and population trends of waterbirds in relation to water level fluctuation in Poyang Lake

Y Li, F Qian, J Silbernagel, H Larson - Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Poyang Lake is China's largest freshwater lake, and it has been an internationally
important wintering ground for migratory waterbirds. Based on waterbird censuses from …

Wintering waterbirds in the middle and lower Yangtze River floodplain: changes in abundance and distribution

W Wang, JD Fraser, J Chen - Bird Conservation International, 2017 - cambridge.org
The middle and lower Yangtze River floodplain is a globally important wintering area for
waterbirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. Ornithologists have reported on wintering …

Water level affects availability of optimal feeding habitats for threatened migratory waterbirds

Y Aharon‐Rotman, J McEvoy, Z Zhaoju… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Extensive ephemeral wetlands at Poyang Lake, created by dramatic seasonal changes in
water level, constitute the main wintering site for migratory Anatidae in China. Reductions in …

Wintering waterbirds in a large river floodplain: Hydrological connectivity is the key for reconciling development and conservation

S Xia, Y Liu, Y Wang, B Chen, Y Jia, G Liu, X Yu… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
An alteration in the hydrological connectivity reduces the synergistic processes and
interactions between rivers and their floodplains, and changes the distribution of waterbirds …

Diet drives the gut microbiome composition and assembly processes in winter migratory birds in the Poyang Lake wetland, China

B Wang, H Zhong, Y Liu, L Ruan, Z Kong… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Significant differences in bacterial and potentially pathogenic communities between sympatric hooded crane and greater white-fronted goose

X Xiang, F Zhang, R Fu, S Yan, L Zhou - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The gut microbiota of vertebrates play a crucial role in shaping the health of their hosts.
However, knowledge of the avian intestinal microbiota has arguably lagged behind that of …