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Environmental and Sustainability Indicators · 2025

Environmental change and declining wading birds

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KM Aarif#, A Nefla#, KA Rubeena#, Y Xu, Z Bouragaoui, M Nasser, CT Shifa, TR Athira, K Jishnue, J Anandg, S Manokarana, PP Moosah, A Gopinathi, OR Reshia, KM Rajaneesha, H Byjuj, TV Joydasa, KP Manikandana, MI Naikooa, C Sonnek, SB Muzaffarl (2025). Assessing environmental change and population declines of large wading birds in southwestern India. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators 25:100572

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · 2024 · Editorial

Remote sensing of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

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Z Li, J Wu, S Peng, Y Xu, W Sun, J Gao (2024). Editorial: Remote sensing advances in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12:1367840

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2023

Ecological barriers mediate bird range shifts

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EL Marjakangas#, L Bosco#, M Versluijs, Y Xu, A Santangeli, S Holopainen, S Mäkeläinen, S Herrando, V Keller, P Voříšek, L Brotons, A Johnston, K Princé, SG Willis, K Aghababyan, V Ajder, DE Balmer, T Bino, KA Boyla, T Chodkiewicz, JC Del Moral, VD Mazal, A Ferrarini, C Godinho, M Gustin, M Kalyakin, P Knaus, T Kuzmenko, Å Lindström, Q Maxhuni, B Molina, K Nagy, D Radišić, S Rajkov, DZ Rajković, L Raudoniki, J Sjeničić, S Stoychev, T Szép, N Teufelbauer, S Ursul, CAM van Turnhout, M Velevski, T Vikstrøm, T Wilk, O Voltzit, IJ Øien, C Sudfeldt, B Gerlach, A Lehikoinen (2023). Ecological barriers mediate spatiotemporal shifts of bird communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120:e2213330120

Ecology · 2023

Traits and environment jointly affect population stability

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P Hong#, Z Li#, Q Yang, W Deng, Y Xu, JA Tobias, S Wang (2023). Functional traits and environment jointly determine the spatial scaling of population stability in North American birds. Ecology 104:e3973

Ecological Indicators · 2023

Long-term pressures on kingfisher assemblages

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CT Shifa, KD Salindra, Y Xu, Rubeena KA, SB Muzaffar, A Nefla, T Jobira, P Thejass, RR Omer, KM Aarif. (2023). Long-term anthropogenic stressors cause declines in kingfisher assemblages in wetlands in southwestern India. Ecological Indicators 155:111062

Diversity · 2023

Shorebird population trends along the Arabian Gulf

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H Shamna, KA Rubeena, HA Naser, TR Athira, AK Singh, AH Almusabeh, S Zogaris, OF Al-Sheikhly, Y Xu, A Nefla, DR Gijjappu, SB Muzaffar, KM Aarif (2023). Long-Term Population Trends and Diversity Shifts among Shorebirds: A Predictor of Biodiversity Loss along the Arabian Gulf Coasts. Diversity 15:468.

Oecologia · 2022

Drivers and constraints for winter range shifts

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L Bosco#, Y Xu#, P Deshpande, A Lehikoinen (2022). Range shifts of overwintering birds depend on habitat type, snow conditions and habitat specialization. Oecologia 199:725–736

Diversity · 2022

Shorebird diversity across India’s coasts

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AP Rashiba, K Jishnu, H Byju, CT Shifa, J Anand, K Vichithra, Y Xu, A Nefla, SB Muzaffar, KM Aarif, KA Rubeena. (2022). The Paradox of Shorebird Diversity and Abundance in the West Coast and East Coast of India: A Comparative Analysis. Diversity 14:885

Functional Ecology · 2021

Fast–slow traits drive avian community stability

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Z Li, H Zhang, Y Xu, S Wang (2021). Composition of ‘fast-slow’ traits drives avian community stability over North America. Functional Ecology 35:2831-2840

Animals · 2021

Habitat use of alpine vertebrates

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Z Li, Z Tang, Y Xu, Y Wang, Z Duan, X Liu, P Wang, J Yang, W Chen, HHT Prins (2021). Habitat Use and Activity Patterns of Mammals and Birds in Relation to Temperature and Vegetation Cover in the Alpine Ecosystem of Southwestern China with Camera-Trapping Monitoring. Animals 11:3377

Remote Sensing · 2020

Urbanization-driven changes in land-climate dynamics

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Z Li, Y Xu, S Wang, Y Sun, M Wu, B Zhao (2020). Urbanization-driven changes in land-climate dynamics: A case study of Haihe River Basin, China. Remote Sensing 12:2701

Science of the Total Environment · 2019

Land-cover change and grassland climate

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Z Li, Z Wang, X Liu, X Liu, BD Fath, Y Xu, R Hutjes, C Kroeze (2019). Causal relationship in the interaction between land cover change and underlying surface climate in the grassland ecosystems in China. Science of the Total Environment 647:1080-1087

Ecology and Evolution · 2018

Spring migration of greater white-fronted geese

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Y Si, Y Xu, F Xu, X Li, W Zhang, B Wielstra, J Wei, G Liu, H Luo, J Takekawa, B Sivananintha, T Zhang, WF de Boer, HHT Prins, P Gong (2018). Spring migration patterns, habitat use, and stopover site protection status for two declining waterfowl species wintering in China as revealed by satellite tracking. Ecology and Evolution 8:6280–6289

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