Protecting China's major urban bird diversity hotspots

Li, Li1; Yan, Mingxiao1,4; Hong, Yixuan1,5; Feng, Weijia1; Xie, Dong2; Pagani-Nunez, Emilio1,3

2023-10-01

10.1007/s13280-023-01943-z

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The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework puts forward a new conservation target to enhance urban biodiversity. Cities have a great potential for sustaining biodiversity and nurturing a healthy relationship between people and our nearest nature. It is especially important in developing countries such as China, which has a rich biodiversity and a rapidly growing urban population. Using citizen science data, we show that 48% of the national bird diversity and 42% of its threatened species have been recorded in the top-20 most avian-diverse cities of China. Urban bird diversity hotspots clustered along the eastern coast, indicating the importance of establishing an inter-city conservation network along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. This urban conservation network would be a starting point to promote social recognition of biodiversity's relational value in a country with a vast population and an increasingly important role in meeting UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Bird conservation Convention on biological diversity COP 15 GBF Target 12 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Urban biodiversity

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Engineering ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology

Engineering, Environmental ; Environmental Sciences

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ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY

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1.Xian Jiaotong Liverpool Univ, Dept Hlth & Environm Sci, Suzhou, Peoples R China
2.Nanjing Forestry Univ, Coll Biol & Environm, Nanjing, Peoples R China
3.Edinburgh Napier Univ, Ctr Conservat & Restorat Sci, Sch Appl Sci, Edinburgh, Scotland
4.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Design, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
5.Sun Yat sen Univ, Sch Ecol, Guangzhou, Peoples R China

Li, Li,Yan, Mingxiao,Hong, Yixuan,et al. Protecting China's major urban bird diversity hotspots[J]. AMBIO,2023.

Li, Li,Yan, Mingxiao,Hong, Yixuan,Feng, Weijia,Xie, Dong,&Pagani-Nunez, Emilio.(2023).Protecting China's major urban bird diversity hotspots.AMBIO.

Li, Li,et al."Protecting China's major urban bird diversity hotspots".AMBIO (2023).