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Zhang Z, Wang C, Gong G, Chen Y, Ma S, Wu Y, Wang H, Li Y, Duan H. Biodiversity conservation and management of lake wetlands based on the spatiotemporal evolution patterns of crane habitats. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2024; 353:120257. [PMID: 38330843 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2023] [Revised: 01/27/2024] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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The typical lake wetlands in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are important wintering sites of cranes in China. The spatiotemporal evolution of crane populations and their habitats has great value in clarifying the pivotal role of regional lake wetlands in biodiversity conservation. Therefore, 2562 data points of four crane species were selected in this study. The data reflected the distributional position of the cranes over the period 2000-2020. Twelve surrounding environmental factors were selected to investigate the spatiotemporal evolution in the study area by using the MaxEnt model. The Jackknife method was used to identify the main environmental factors affecting the choice of crane habitats. The results indicated that: (1) Developed land in the study area increased by 42,795.81 hm2. The crane populations were mainly distributed in the farmland and mudflat, and their number decreased yearly. (2) From 2000 to 2020, the area of suitable crane habitat experienced an overall decrease. Specifically, the mid-suitable area dwindled by 6234.23 hm2, marking a substantial reduction of 52.05 %. Similarly, the most suitable area saw a decline of 786.41 hm2, representing a noteworthy decrease of 71.09 %. (3) The findings from the analysis of influencing factors revealed a dynamic pattern over the years. Habitat type, water density, and distance to water were the main influencing factors in the study area from 2000 to 2020. This study provides a new perspective on the conservation and structural habitat restoration of crane populations in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
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- Zihan Zhang
- School of Economics and Management, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China.
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- School of Marine Science and Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modelling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
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Novčić I, Mlakar MM, Vidović Z, Hauber ME. Black‐headed gulls synchronize vigilance with their nearest neighbor irrespective of the neighbor's relative position. Ethology 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.13353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Ivana Novčić
- Faculty of Biology University of Belgrade Belgrade Serbia
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- Teacher Education Faculty University of Belgrade Belgrade Serbia
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, School of Integrative Biology University of Illinois Urbana‐Champaign Illinois USA
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Novčić I, Vidović Z, Hauber ME. Nonrandom pattern of vigilance by preening black-headed gulls. BEHAVIOUR 2022. [DOI: 10.1163/1568539x-bja10167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Classic models of vigilance assume instantaneous and sequential randomness in the scanning process, implying negative exponential distribution of interscan durations and no interdependence among successive interscans. We examined whether vigilance pattern by preening black-headed gulls, Chroicocephalus ridibundus, meets these assumptions. Out of 54 behavioural sequences, 50 departed from the expected negative exponential distribution, whereas the focal interscan duration was significantly affected by the interaction of the preceding scan and the interscan interval. These results reveal departures from randomness in the scanning process by gulls, which may be a consequence of the hunting strategies of their predators or due to the trade-off between the needs for feather maintenance and antipredator vigilance.
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- Ivana Novčić
- Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Teacher Education Faculty, University of Belgrade, Kraljice Natalije 43, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA
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Haemig PD, Sjöstedt de Luna S, Blank H. Dynamic table‐visiting behavior of birds at outdoor restaurants and cafés. Ethology 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.13145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Paul D. Haemig
- Nature Division Government of Jönköping Province Jönköping Sweden
- Department of Natural Sciences Linneaus University Kalmar Sweden
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- Nature Division Government of Jönköping Province Jönköping Sweden
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Wang X, Yang L, Zhao Y, Yu C, Li Z. The group size effect and synchronization of vigilance in the Tibetan wild ass. Curr Zool 2020; 67:11-16. [PMID: 33654485 PMCID: PMC7901751 DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoaa024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Vigilance behavior is considered as an effective strategy for prey species to detect predators. An individual benefits from living in a group by reducing the time spent being vigilant without affecting the probability of detecting a predator. However, the mechanism producing a decrease in vigilance with increasing group size is unclear. Many models of vigilance assume that group members scan independently of one another. Yet in recent studies, the other 2 patterns of vigilance, coordination and synchronization, were reported in some species. In 2 summers (2018 and 2019), we studied the group-size effect on vigilance and foraging of Tibetan wild ass in Chang Tang Nature Reserve of Tibet. We also tested whether individuals scan the environment independently, tend to coordinate their scans, or tend to synchronize their vigilance. The results showed that individuals decreased the time spent on vigilance with increasing group size, while increased the time spent foraging. Group members scanned the environment at the same time more frequently and there was a positive correlation between group members’ behaviors, indicating that Tibetan wild asses tend to synchronize their vigilance.
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- Xinxin Wang
- Lab of Animal Behavior and Conservation, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Tibet Plateau Institute of Biology, 19 Beijing West Road, Lhasa, 850000, China
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- Lab of Animal Behavior and Conservation, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Lab of Animal Behavior and Conservation, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing, 210023, China
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- Lab of Animal Behavior and Conservation, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing, 210023, China
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Vigilance strategy differentiation between sympatric threatened and common crane species. Behav Processes 2020; 176:104119. [PMID: 32360312 DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2019] [Revised: 03/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Studies have indicated that threatened species may show reduced or elevated antipredator behavior compared with their close common relatives, but remarkably few studies revealed such differences in behavior among populations. Exploring factors affecting behavior between phylogenetically related common and threatened species could help understand such discrepancy. We tested for effects of external and internal variables including month, time of day, habitat type, distribution area, group composition status and group size on vigilance behavior (including group scan frequency and level) of two sympatric common Grus grus and threatened G. nigricollis cranes with generalized linear models. We detected significant species effect on group scan level, and grus was more vigilant than nigricollis. Model tests also indicated that group size had common effect on group scan frequency for both species, and distribution area significantly correlated with the vigilance of nigricollis, while grus was more affected by time of day and group composition status in areas of sympatry with nigricollis. But when nigricollis was absent, time had no effects on behavior by individuals belonging to grus, implying existence of inter-specific competition. We also found that grus decreased individual vigilance efforts by foraging with other species (e.g., Bar-headed Goose Anser indicus) to share large group alertness benefits (collective vigilance). As our results demonstrated, we argued that, with diverse antipredation tactics e.g., foraging with other species, alternating time rhythm or partitioning spatial utilization to mitigate inter-specific competition, reducing time allocation to preening while maintaining foraging efforts, common grus could maintain high level of vigilance, which may benefit their survival and population increase. Whereas less time spent vigilant antipredation strategy adopted by threatened nigricollis, this may have negative effects on their populations.
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Evans MHR, Lihou KL, Rands SA. Black-headed gulls synchronise their activity with their nearest neighbours. Sci Rep 2018; 8:9978. [PMID: 29967446 PMCID: PMC6028586 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-28378-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Accepted: 06/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Animals in groups can benefit from synchronising their behaviour, where multiple individuals conduct similar activities at the same moment in time. Previous studies have demonstrated that some species show synchronisation of vigilance behaviour, but have not explored the mechanism driving this behaviour. Synchronisation could be driven by animals copying their closest neighbours, which would mean that close proximity should lead to increased synchronisation. We simultaneously observed the behaviour of multiple individual black-headed gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) within resting groups, and compared the activity of a focal individual with its two closest neighbours and a randomly selected control individual. Focal individuals were more likely to be synchronised with their closest neighbour. Synchronisation became less likely if individuals were not the closest neighbour. This suggests that synchronisation seen within groups is dependent upon the spatial positions of its members, and black-headed gulls pay more attention to their closest neighbours.
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- Madeleine H R Evans
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, United Kingdom
- Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol, Langford House, Langford, North Somerset, BS40 5DU, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, United Kingdom
- Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol, Langford House, Langford, North Somerset, BS40 5DU, United Kingdom
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, United Kingdom.
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Wilkins K, Bowser G, Moore J. Effects of birdwatchers on sandhill crane behavior at a birding festival in southwest Colorado. SOUTHWEST NAT 2017. [DOI: 10.1894/swnat-d-16-00074.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- Kate Wilkins
- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 (KW)
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- Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory and Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 (GB, JM)
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- Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory and Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 (GB, JM)
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Habitat-dependent changes in vigilance behaviour of Red-crowned Crane influenced by wildlife tourism. Sci Rep 2017; 7:16614. [PMID: 29192203 PMCID: PMC5709511 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16907-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2016] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Endangered Red-crowned Crane (Grus japonensis) is one of the most culturally iconic and sought-after species by wildlife tourists. Here we investigate how the presence of tourists influence the vigilance behaviour of cranes foraging in Suaeda salsa salt marshes and S. salsa/Phragmites australis mosaic habitat in the Yellow River Delta, China. We found that both the frequency and duration of crane vigilance significantly increased in the presence of wildlife tourists. Increased frequency in crane vigilance only occurred in the much taller S. salsa/P. australis mosaic vegetation whereas the duration of vigilance showed no significant difference between the two habitats. Crane vigilance declined with increasing distance from wildlife tourists in the two habitats, with a minimum distance of disturbance triggering a high degree of vigilance by cranes identified at 300 m. The presence of wildlife tourists may represent a form of disturbance to foraging cranes but is habitat dependent. Taller P. australis vegetation serves primarily as a visual obstruction for cranes, causing them to increase the frequency of vigilance behaviour. Our findings have important implications for the conservation of the migratory red-crowned crane population that winters in the Yellow River Delta and can help inform visitor management.
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