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This paper studied the winter habitat selection of red-crowned cranes (Grus japonensis) in Yancheng National Natural Reserve, Jiangsu Province. There were six types of habitat used by red-crowned cranes, i.e. salt-works, aquiculture ponds, reed lands, grassy tidal lands, salting wormwood lands and wheat fields. The wheat field was a new type of habitat used by red-crowned cranes. More than 70 percent of red-crowned cranes chose grassy tidal lands, salting wormwood lands, and reed lands as their most important habitats. In recent years, the distribution of red-crowned cranes moved southward gradually. Red-crowned cranes prefer artificial or semiartificial wetlands rather than original wetlands, successive distribution was broken into fragments.
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The project is supported by Jiangsu Province
Zhang Honghai, male, born in July 1967, associate professor, Department of Biology, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, P. R. China.
Responsible: Zhu Hong
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Honghai, Z., Yuewei, Y. Winter habitat selection of red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis). Journal of Forestry Research 11, 44–46 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02855495
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02855495