Bird watching in China reveals bird distribution changes

作     者：LI XueYan LIANG Lu GONG Peng LIU Yang LIANG FeiFei 

作者机构：College of Global Change and Earth System ScienceBeijing Normal University Institute of Remote Sensing ApplicationChinese Academy of Sciences State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing ScienceBeijing Normal University Center for Earth System ScienceTsinghua University Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological EngineeringBeijing Normal University 

出 版 物：《Chinese Science Bulletin》 (Chinese Science Bulletin)

年 卷 期：2013年第58卷第31期

页      面：649-656页

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学科分类：07[理学] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：supported by the Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30590370) the National High-tech Research and Development Program of China (2009AA122000) 

主　　题：鸟类栖息地 中国大陆 观鸟 新疆维吾尔自治区 中国东部地区 数据库 GIS软件 高海拔地区 

摘      要：Using China Bird Report(2003-2007) as data source in combination with descriptions about bird habitats,we built up the China Bird Watching *** also developed spherical GIS software Global Analyst to create the point-based database which contains accurate spatial-temporal *** China Bird Watching Database can reflect the achievement of Chinese bird watchers and complement the basic knowledge of bird *** a total of 30936 records from 17 Orders,70 Families and 1078 Species of 5 years are included in the database,representing over 80% of all bird species in *** 2007,the geographic coverage has encompassed all provincial level administrative districts in China,with the exception of Hong Kong and *** China Bird Watching Database also recorded a group of species which are additions at national and provincial levels,including 14 species which are additions to the national checklist and 109 species which appeared outside their original *** the new records with their original distributions,we found the trend that species move to higher latitude and higher elevation regions and some species of waterfowls in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,including a suite of rare seabirds in the China s *** majority of bird watchers come from the Eastern Region of China,but their covering range is spreading *** the same time,we appeal to adopting a suite of new technologies for observation,and building up sharing platform of bird watching data to capture the distribution dynamics of birds in China and provide a direct foundation for bird conservation.