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Bird species included in model

Bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica), Black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), Common redshank (Tringa totanus), Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus), Grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola), Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus), Little stint (Calidris minuta), Ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula), Sanderling (Calidris alba)

Environmental issues simulated

Salina abandonment, aquaculture intensification, changing habitat area

Recomendations from modelling

Abandonment of traditional salinas and intensification of aquaculture does not greatly effect shorebird survival as other feeding habitat available.

More information

Stillman, R.A., Caldow, R.W.G., le V. dit Durell, S.E.A., West, A.D., McGrorty, S., Goss-Custard, J.D., Pérez-Hurtado, A., Castro, M., Estrella, S., Masero, J.A., Rodríguez-Pascual, F.H., Triplet, P., Loquet, N., Desprez, M., Fritz, H., Clausen, P., Ebbinge, B., Norris, K. and Mattison, E., 2005. Coastal bird diversity. Maintaining migratory coastal bird diversity: management through individual-based predictive population modelling, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Winfrith Newburgh, Dorset.

Funding

European Commission. Project number: EVK2-2000-00612