A landscape approach to reserving farm ponds for wintering bird refuges in Taoyuan, Taiwan

Man-made farm ponds are unique geographic features of the Taoyuan Tableland. Besides irrigation, they provide refuges for wintering birds. The issue at hand is that these features are disappearing and bring with it the loss of this refuge function. It is ecologically significant because one fifth of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fang, Wei-Ta
Other Authors: Loh, K Douglas
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Texas A&M University 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3984