Loss of habitat leads to loss of birds: reflections on the Jiangsu, China, coastal development plans
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Pages
93 – 98
Published
1 August 17
Authors
Theunis Piersma, Ying-Chi Chan, Tong Mu, Chris J. Hassell, David S. Melville, He-Bo Peng, Zhijun Ma, Zhengwang Zhang, David S. Wilcove
DOI
10.18194/ws.00077
Correspondence
Theunis Piersma
theunis.piersma@nioz.nl
Chair in Global Flyway Ecology, Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, P.O. Box 11103, 9799 CC Groningen & NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Coastal Systems and Utrecht University, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB Den Burg (Texel), The Netherlands
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Prompted by the realization that parts of the coast of southern Jiangsu Province, China, are under threat of reclamation, we here summarize evidence that loss of intertidal habitats around the Yellow Sea and at other parts along the Chinese and Korean coasts has already led to severe population declines of migratory shorebirds, including multiple endangered species. All the evidence currently at hand suggest that the plans to reclaim (develop) additional intertidal habitat in this region poses a substantial threat to the remaining shorebird populations. We recommend that new Environmental Impact Assessments are warranted before further reductions in the extent of mudflats take place.
栖息地的丧失导致鸟类的消失：对中国江苏沿海滩涂发展规划的反思
因为意识到江苏省南部沿海的部分地区仍面临着大规模围垦的威胁，我们在此总结了黄海区域以及中国和朝鲜半岛沿岸的其他区域潮间带栖息地丧失，及因此导致的包括许多濒危物种在内的迁徙鸻鹬类种群数量严重下降的相关证据。目前所有的证据均表明，规划中对于潮间带栖息地的更大范围的围垦将会严重威胁仅存的鸻鹬类种群。因此我们建议，在继续对潮间带滩涂进行围垦前，应对相关区域重新进行全面而细致的环境影响评价。
A translation of the manuscript into mandarin was kindly provided by the authors.