Table 1 Flyway-level population trend estimates and 95% CRI for ten EAAF migratory shorebird taxa and their reliance on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats.

From: Rapid population decline in migratory shorebirds relying on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats as stopover sites

Taxon

Yellow Sea reliance

Trend (95% CRI)

menzbieri bar-tailed godwit*

1.00

−0.061 (−0.087, −0.037)

Far eastern curlew*

0.95

−0.058 (−0.070, −0.046)

Curlew sandpiper

0.90

−0.075 (−0.095, −0.055)

Great knot*

0.90

−0.051 (−0.075, −0.025)

Red knot

0.90

−0.044 (−0.066, −0.022)

Lesser sand plover

0.70

−0.060 (−0.102, −0.020)

baueri bar-tailed godwit*

0.50

−0.014 (−0.022, −0.006)

Terek sandpiper

0.40

−0.023 (−0.067, 0.020)

Red-necked stint*

0.35

−0.016 (−0.031, 0.000)

Grey-tailed tattler*

0.03

0.011 (−0.021, 0.041)

  1. CRI, credible interval; EAAF, East Asian-Australasian Flyway. Yellow Sea reliance is the proportion of the EAAF population that stages in the Yellow Sea during northbound and southbound migration combined. Population trend estimates are posterior means of slope parameter β from equation (4). An asterisk denotes taxa endemic to the EAAF. Boldface estimates indicate credibly declining taxa.
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