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The Characteristics of Climate Change and Adaptability Assessment of Migratory Bird Habitats in Wolonghu Wetlands

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The Wolonghu Wetlands is an essential ecological barrier to resist southward expansion of the Horqin Desert, also is an important stopover and energy supplement site for the global birds migrating in the route of East Asia to Australia. This paper aims to clarify the characteristics of Climate Change and adaptability assessment of migratory bird habitats in Wolonghu Wetlands. The study used the historical measured data of the past 60 years and the predicted results by CMIP5 climate model to analyze the variation and development trend of temperature and precipitation in history and future. The impacts of extreme weather events on migratory bird habitats have been analyzed as well. The results show that: (1) The water level is one of the important factors affecting the birds and their habitat in Wolonghu Wetlands. The water level dropped from 88.9 m to 87.83 m, and the number of birds raised by 2orders of magnitude. (2) The whole climate is getting warmer and wetter. (3) In the past 60 years, extreme precipitation accounted for 19% of total precipitation, and 7.7% in July. In the next 30 years, extreme precipitation accounts for 13.9% of the total precipitation in the RCP4.5 scenario, and 10.1% in July. Compared with history, extreme precipitation is more concentrated in July. (4) In the past 60 years, no severe drought and extraordinary drought occurred in summer. The occurrence probability of above extreme events in the next 30 years is 1.83%. This study can provide some references for relevant management departments of Wolonghu Wetlands to formulate wetland protection and restoration measures.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the National Key Research and Development Project (No. 2017YFC0404504 and No. 2016YFA0601503), and the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (No. 51409266). We would like to thank the Wolonghu Ecological District Administration of Kangping County, the Kangping County Water Conservancy Bureau and other departments in Kangping County, for providing us with the basic data and full support during this study.

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  1. School of Water Conservancy and Hydroelectric Power, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, 056021, China

    Jun Ma

  2. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing, 100038, China

    Jun Ma, Baisha Weng, Wuxia Bi, Dengming Yan, Meng Li, Ting Xu, Lina Wang & Lin Wang

  3. College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China

    Wuxia Bi

  4. College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China

    Dengming Yan

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Ma, J., Weng, B., Bi, W. et al. The Characteristics of Climate Change and Adaptability Assessment of Migratory Bird Habitats in Wolonghu Wetlands. Wetlands 39, 415–427 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-018-1068-8

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