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Monitoring Breeding Bird Populations in Taiwan

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Integrative Observations and Assessments

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The Taiwan Breeding Bird Survey (BBS Taiwan) is a national monitoring project with the aim of establishing a breeding bird population index for conservation. It was established as a citizen science project with the working group operating on a cross-organizational cooperation basis. From 2009 to 2012, BBS Taiwan has obtained data from more than 300 sampling sites and has reported on national population trends for more than 60 % of the diurnal breeding bird species in Taiwan. Descriptions of sampling design, survey methods, and current results are given in this chapter. With ongoing monitoring projects covering other taxa such as anurans, butterflies, bats, and reptiles, biodiversity observation networks in Taiwan are expected to provide critical information to aid conservation and climate change adaptation strategies, and also to increase public awareness of the importance of biodiversity.

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Acknowledgments

We thank all participants of BBS Taiwan, including regional organizers, workshop speakers, and survey volunteers. We are also grateful to Tatsuya Amano, Mark B. Wilkie, and Michihiko K. Saito for providing valuable comments to improve the manuscript. The BBS Taiwan workgroup thanks the Forestry Bureau, Council of Agriculture, and the Biodiversity Research Center, National Taiwan University, for funding the project.

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  1. Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chie-Jen Ko & Pei-Fen Lee

  2. Endemic Species Research Institute, Nantou, Taiwan

    Meng-Wen Fan & Ruey-Shing Lin

  3. Chinese Wild Bird Federation, Taipei, Taiwan

    Chien-Chung Cheng

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  1. Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

    Shin -ichi Nakano

  2. Department of Biology Center for Asian Conservation Ecology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Tetsukazu Yahara

  3. Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Tohru Nakashizuka

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Ko, CJ., Fan, MW., Lin, RS., Cheng, CC., Lee, PF. (2014). Monitoring Breeding Bird Populations in Taiwan. In: Nakano, Si., Yahara, T., Nakashizuka, T. (eds) Integrative Observations and Assessments. Ecological Research Monographs(). Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54783-9_3

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