1/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
Hi shorebird folks! 1more4U2go! Migratory shorebirds connect. Movements, presence & phenotypes signal the state of habitats. Let's develop tracked individual migratory birds as sentinels (of connected parts) of Earth. #ornithology #globalchange @WaderStudy
2/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
Recently, 100 units of fossil energy produced 104 energy units of food, thanks soil-based processes. Now, 100 units fossil energy yield 16 food units, the 84% loss equals release of CO2 & active nitrogen threatening climate & biodiversity. #globalchange #dairy
3/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
Looking at scale of a country then, steep decline of specialized #dairy #farmland #wader, black-tailed #godwit (#grutto) in Netherlands signals growth of unsustainable, climate & biodiversity threatening, practices in agriculture. #globalchange @WaderStudy
4/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
Idea of #shorebirds as #integrative #sentinels of #globalchange is not new. It was topic of review published @IBIS_journal 2005. Numbers, timing of migration, plumage, mass & behaviour indicate if ecological & climate systems are intact. @WaderStudy @unep_aewa
5/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
Neither is idea of reversed (#optimality) reasoning. In important prey species of #knots, #Baltic #tellins, deeper burrowing depth in autumn predicted greater recruitment (spatfall) during following summer! #marinebiology #bivalves #WaddenSea @NIOZnieuws
6/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
In fact, deeper burrowing predicted re-establishment of #Baltic #tellins as dominant #bivalve on intertidal flats of western Dutch #WaddenSea, 8 years after destructive #cockle #dredging stopped. #fishery #marinebiology #bivalves @NIOZnieuws @waddentweets
7/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
The return of #Baltic #tellin (Limecola balthica) also lead to return of late-summer-to-early-winter red #knots, during their prebasic #moult, as red knots closely track tellins. #numericalresponse #bivalves @NIOZnieuws @waddentweets @AllertBijleveld
8/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
But numbers are not always the most informative! Great #knots at YaluJiang, #YellowSea, China, that apparently had nowhere to go, tried coping by adjusting digestive tract size to diminishing prey quality. #numericalresponse #phenotype @EAAFP @WaderStudy
9/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
Whereas numbers of islandica #knots demonstrated dredging effects & appropriate #policy responses, canutus knots showed reduced growth of young in summers with early snow melt, demonstrating consequences of #arctic #warming. #globalwarming @aaas @NIOZnieuws
10/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
The most inaccessible lands in #Arctic change fastest due to #globalwarming. This affects the long-distance migratory #shorebirds breeding there, but also make them potential #sentinels of this change. #globalchange #tundra #phenology #snow @univgroningen
11/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
Bar-tailed #godwits migrating along #EastAtlanticFlyway keptup with advancing snow melt by staging shorter in #WaddenSea at cost of lower #survival. Dependence on chains of sites complicates simple #sentinel interpretations. #globalchange #arcticamplification
12/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
This calls for direct measurements of movements to show state of animal & environment. Movement analysis of shorebirds with trackers, especially if tracks are detailed, offer lots of promise. #movementecology #globalchange #ornithology #ICARUSinitiative
13/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
A very simple application may be movements during breeding season. As example, identified non-breeding sat-tagged black-tailed #godwits move much more and further than birds with a mate & nest. #satellitetracking #movementecology #grutto @univgroningen
14/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
There is much scope in combining Earth observations with Down-to-Earth observations of tracked #shorebirds. We developed a very satisfactory LAND USE INTENSITY metric based on @Sentinel1a explaining godwit distributions. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… @ESA_EO @esa

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14/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
There is much scope in combining Earth observations with Down-to-Earth observations of tracked #shorebirds. We developed a very satisfactory LAND USE INTENSITY metric based on @Sentinel1a explaining godwit distributions. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… @ESA_EO @esa
15/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
We were able to show the value of both this new LAND USE INTENSITY metric as well as distribution of tagged godwits during hot dry summer of 2018, when much of what is now evergreen pasture turned brown. #climatechange #Dairy @RuthHowison @DairyCampus
16/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9
Distribution of tagged black-tailed #godwits in early summer was better predictor of #drought damage than land use intensity. Interpretation: #grutto's select intact #soils with capillary connections with #groundwater. #meadowbirds #sentinels @WaderStudy
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