Optimized MaxEnt model Saunders's Gull Yellow river Delta Habitat suitability 1. Introduction For birds, habitat refers to the place where an individual or community conducts a variety of life activities at a certain stage of its life history (Cody, 1985). Rare waterfowl are extremely sensitive ...
The Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD) in northern Alberta is one of the world's largest inland freshwater deltas, home to large populations of waterfowl, muskrat, beaver, and free-ranging wood bison. Beginning in the mid-1970s, a paucity of ice-jam flooding in the lower Peace R...
and in the Delta, only three are fully aquatic (Xenopus laevis,X. muelleriandX. petersii). Their diversity is influenced by habitat availability, which is maximum in the periphery of the Delta (Le Roux2010). Bufonidae (True toads) and Ptychadenidae (Grassland frogs) are the families with...
First, referring to the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially the Waterfowl Habitat (referred to as the Convention on Wetlands, also known as the Ramsar Convention), and also using the national standard of China’s wetland classification [40] as the main reference criterion...
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Vegetation composition and structure have been recognized as vital constituents for a long-term retention of ecosystem functionality [7,8], regulating water runoff, soil stability, carbon sink, wildlife habitat, and ecosystem resilience [9,10,11,12]. The persistent clearance of vegetation and the ...