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Cessation? Intensification? Or maybe moderation? What is best for farmland waders?

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Pages
84 – 85

Published
1 September 16

Authors
Deborah M. Buehler

DOI
10.18194/ws.00040

Correspondence
Deborah M. Buehler

Outreach Editor, ‘Wader Study’ Research and Data Analyst, University of Toronto, Canada

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In Spotlight articles Deborah Buehler highlights a paper of each issue.

This time she discusses the effects of agriculatural  land-use on breeding shorebirds.

Rapidly decreasing population trends in farmland breeding waders in the Vinagradovo Floodplain near Moscow, Russia appear similar to those seen in Western Europe, where farming intensification is a problem. However, in the Vinagradovo Floodplain agriculture is not intensifying; indeed the opposite is true: farmlands are being abandoned.