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Titre :	Extension of irrigated ricefields and waterbird conservation in the Senegal River Delta (West Africa): Coexistence or incompatibility? (2017)
Titre original:	Extension of irrigated ricefields and waterbird conservation in the Senegal River Delta (West Africa)
Auteurs :	Patrick Triplet, Auteur ; I Gueye, Auteur ; S.S. Guissé, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Alauda (85(1) janvier 1, 2017)
Article en page(s) :	253-260
Résumé :	The rapid extension of irrigated ricefields in the Senegal River Delta has greatly altered the natural wetlands which were transformed in artificial wetlands. The comparison between waterbird numbers present in January and the surface areas covered by ricefields shows that the numbers of the Fulvous Whistling Duck Dendrocygna bicolor, the Ruff Philomachus pugnax and the Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa have been negatively impacted by increasing extension of ricefields (particularly through agricultural intensification and mechanization) much more than by the surface areas covered now by ricefields.

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