Appendix B. Figures showing sample-based rarefaction curves of the bird communities restricted to detections within 30-m and 20-m radius point counts of protected areas.

Figures showing sample-based rarefaction curves of the bird communities restricted to detections within 30-m and 20-m radius point counts of protected areas

Appendix A. Summary information of bird species recorded, including their category, diet, stratum, and abundance within and outside the protected areas.

Summary information of bird species recorded, including their category, diet, stratum, and abundance within and outside the protected areas

(a) Cluster analysis of bird communities of the 9 transects-villages using Sorensen similarity index as input. (b) Correspondence analysis (CA) ordination of count points with superimposed groups from e-waste exposed (<i>n = 30</i>), surrounding (<i>n = 30</i>) and reference sites (<i>n = 30</i>).

<p>See <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0122264#pone.0122264.g001" target="_blank">Fig. 1</a> for map of sites, and <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0122264#pone.0122264.s001" target="_blank">S1 Table</a> for a summary of bird abundances.</p

Relative abundance for nine resident species that were detected significantly decreased from natural reference to e-waste polluted zone.

<p><i>Note</i>: Species include only those with ≥ 4 detections and normal distributions. Relative abundance is expressed as mean number of birds detected within 50 m per point at each site. Results of <i>F</i> test, as well as table-wide significance (<i>p</i>) are also given. The <i>F</i> test of significance uses the type III sums-of-squares obtained from a linear mixed model.</p><p>Relative abundance for nine resident species that were detected significantly decreased from natural reference to e-waste polluted zone.</p

Sampled-based rarefaction curves (a); box and whisker plots comparing mean point species richness, abundance, and diversity among sites from e-waste exposed (<i>n = 30</i>), surrounding (<i>n = 30</i>) and reference sites (<i>n = 30</i>), occurring in breeding (b) and winter (c) season.

<p>Curves were generated by Monte-Carlo simulations with 95% confidence intervals (on the total number of species vs. individuals observed). Site estimates are based on standardized point counts where bird numbers were counted for 10 min at each plot. Each point was counted four times totally. Different letters at each box indicate significant differences at a = 0.05. <i>P</i> values are derived from <i>F</i> tests that use the type III sums-of-squares obtained from linear mixed models.</p

Upper part: the major habitat characteristics where birds were censused for this study.

<p>Lower part: Information on the types and levels of e-waste-related chemical POPs concentrations (median and range, ng/g lipid weight) in birds.</p><p><i>Notes of upperpart</i>: Within rows, same susuperscripts indicate that no siginificant difference are based on are based on one-way ANOVA (df = 2, 8) with Tukey’s test for multiple comparisons</p><p><i>Source of lower part</i>:</p><p>^a Unpublished data (in press);</p><p>^b Sun et al. (2012) [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0122264#pone.0122264.ref027" target="_blank">27</a>];</p><p>^c Sun et al. (2014) [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0122264#pone.0122264.ref028" target="_blank">28</a>];</p><p>^d Mo et al. (2013) [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0122264#pone.0122264.ref029" target="_blank">29</a>];</p><p>^e Mo et al. (2012) [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0122264#pone.0122264.ref030" target="_blank">30</a>].</p><p>Upper part: the major habitat characteristics where birds were censused for this study.</p

Hua_et_al-Phenology and weather data

1. Raw time series on the first and last sighting of 50 animal taxa collected from 360 meteorological observatories between 1981 and 2009. 2. Weather data from the same sites where phenological data were collected, including records on the daily maximum, minimum, and mean temperature, and daily precipitation. In all, weather data for 349 sites within China were presented

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