Symposium: Waterbirds & Rice Fields
October 31, 2007 at the Waterbird Society 31st Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain
Conveners
Chris Elphick, Kathy Parsons, Lourdes Mugica, Mauro Fasola
Overview
Waterbird use of agricultural wetlands has increased as natural wetlands continue to decline worldwide. Rice fields occupy more of the world’s land than any other wetland crop – over 1.5 million km2 – and the crop is the primary source of calories for over half of the world’s human population. In some cases, the use of rice habitats is considered to be essential to sustaining waterbird populations. In contrast, other situations exist where rice farming sis seen as a threat to waterbird conservation. A large literature has begun to develop that documents the use of rice habitats by waterbirds throughout the world, however, significant gaps remain. Available information has never been comprehensively reviewed and analyzed at a global scale. This symposium will bring together researchers from around the world to synthesize existing research, discern management approaches for optimizing the rice-waterbirds relationship, and identify new areas for investigation.
Abstracts
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Presentations
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Waterbirds in rice fields: introduction and global overview
Presenter: Chris Elphick
Rice fields and birds in the Mediterranean region
Presenter: Violetta Longoni
Use of rice fields by waterbirds in the Neotropics
Presenter: Lourdes Mugica
Bird use of rice fields in Korea and Japan
Presenter: Masahiro Fujioka
Food resources for birds in rice fields worldwide
Presenter: Joshua Stafford
Application of biomarkers to assess the feeding use of rice fields by waterbirds
Presenter: Xavier Ruiz
The quality of rice fields as feeding habitat for long-distance migratory waterbirds: Springstaging ecology of Black-Tailed Godwit Limosa limosa at East Atlantic flyway’s rice fields
Presenter: José A. Masero
Audouin’s Gull (Larus audouinii): from a pelagic foraging stress to an establishment of temporary terrestrial diet in Ebro Delta rice paddies
Presenter: Emma Guinart Patiño
Effects of pesticide use in rice fields on birds
Presenter: Katharine Parsons
Negative effects of birds on rice production and options for minimizing/mitigating crop
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Presenter: Christophe Tourenq
Waterbird Use of North American Croplands -- A Comparison
Presenter: Chris Elphick
Influence of rice field management on birds during the growing season, an Ebro Delta case study
Presenter: Carles Ibáñez
Influence of the European agri-environment measures on rice fields for the Lapwing Vanellus vanellus: a wintering specie in southern Europe
Presenter: Carles Barriocanal
Effects of landscape characteristics on waterbird use of rice fields
Presenter: Sammy King
Spatial and temporal landscape complementation in rice paddy areas as habitats for bird species in Japan
Presenter: Tatsuya Amano
Global population trends are related to rice field use by waterbirds in south Spain
Presenter: Gregorio M. Toral
Consequences of rice agriculture for waterbird population size and dynamics
Presenter: Mauro Fasola
Discussion
Notes from discussion on applying research to management for waterbird conservation.
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