Reduced Dependence of Crested Ibis on Winter-Flooded Rice Fields: Implications for Their Conservation

• Yiwen Sun,

  Affiliation Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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• Andrew K. Skidmore,

  Affiliation Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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• Tiejun Wang ,

  * E-mail: t.wang@utwente.nl

  Affiliations Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, Bio-resources Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province, Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, China

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• Hein A. M. J. van Gils,

  Affiliation Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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• Qi Wang,

  Affiliation College of Biological Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, China

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• Baoping Qing,

  Affiliation Shaanxi Hanzhong Crested Ibis National Nature Reserve, Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, China

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• Changqing Ding

  Affiliation College of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

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