@article{0d4830a3d0f34e6bb0e674a5173890ee,
title = "Loss of habitat leads to loss of birds: Reflections on the jiangsu, China, coastal development plans",
abstract = "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.",
author = "Theunis Piersma and Chan, {Ying Chi} and Tong Mu and Hassell, {Chris J.} and Melville, {David S.} and Peng, {He Bo} and Zhijun Ma and Zhengwang Zhang and Wilcove, {David S.}",
note = "Funding Information: e research of Global Flyway Network in the region was supported by the Spinoza Premium 2014 and a TOP-grant (Shorebirds in space, ALW-854.11.004) of NWO Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, both to TP, by the in-house support of the University of Gronin-gen (mainly through the Ubbo Emmius Fund) and NIOZ, and by grants from WWF (Netherlands and China) and BirdLife-Netherlands. e satellite tracking in 2016–2017 was enabled by a grant from the MAVA Foundation, Switzerland. Financial support of fieldwork on shorebird distribution in Rudong came from the High Meadows Foundation. We thank Lee Tibbitts of the USGS Alaska Science Center in Anchorage for her help with several key aspects of the tracking study. Xiaoting Shang helped prepare Fig. 2. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017, International Wader Study Group. All rights reserved.",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.18194/ws.00077",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "124",
pages = "93--98",
journal = "Wader Study",
issn = "2058-8410",
publisher = "International Wader Study Group",
number = "2",
}