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ArticleGlobal change biology2025

Synergies Between Agricultural Production and Shorebird Conservation With Climate Change in the Central Valley, California, With Optimized Water Allocation and Multi-Benefit Land Use.

Liying Li, Spencer Cole, José M Rodriguez-Flores, Erin Hestir, Daniel Fink, Joshua H Viers, Josue Medellin-Azuara, Martha Conklin, Thomas Harmon

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Article in Global change biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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9 authors.

Liying LiCivil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6893-3240
Spencer ColeCivil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, USA.
José M Rodriguez-FloresCivil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, USA.
Erin HestirCivil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, USA.
Daniel FinkCornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
Joshua H ViersCivil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, USA.
Josue Medellin-AzuaraCivil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, USA.
Martha ConklinCivil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, USA.
Thomas HarmonCivil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, USA.

Funding

California Department of Food and Agriculture 21-0557-000-SONational Science Foundation 1639268University of California Multicampus Research Initiative Program M21PR3417USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) 2021-69012-35916
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Abstract

Conservation planning that enhances the resiliency of biodiversity to climate change requires adaptive water and land use decision-making in the most cost-efficient way. This has many challenges since landscapes with high biodiversity can embrace intense human production activities, particularly agriculture. Conventionally, water and land used for conservation are often regarded as tradeoffs to agricultural productivity. However, this study found that agricultural water and land use synergize with shorebird conservation in the Central Valley, California. If informed decisions are made to guide strategic land use, landscapes can adapt to climate change and offer multiple benefits. This study used a coupled economic optimization model with a species distribution model to consider human factors in ecological impacts. The objective was to assess the impacts of agricultural water and land use decisions under different climate change scenarios on 10 shorebird species populations in California's Central Valley. Our results showed that strategic water and land management can offer favorable habitats to targeted shorebirds with a land composition including diversified crop categories complementary to wetlands. This study demonstrates that agricultural lands can be as important as wetlands to shorebirds to sustain their migratory stages throughout the year. Wetland restoration without species habitat preference information can lead to population shrinkage since wetland types vary in habitat importance to the shorebird species studied in this research. Business as usual, along with land use and climate change, will decrease shorebirds' breeding season and population to the same degree as they impact non-breeding populations. The synergies between agricultural production and shorebird conservation were found in the scenarios that favor agricultural production water use but also favor habitat provisioning to shorebirds in the Central Valley, California, under climate change.

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AgricultureBirdsClimate ChangeConservation of Natural ResourcesAnimalsBiodiversityCaliforniaWetlandsclimate changeconservationdynamic habitatshorebird populationspecies distribution models

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PMCPMC12179759

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