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7. Choi CY, Lee KS, Poyarkov ND, Park JY, Lee H, Takekawa JY, Smith LM, Ely CR, Wang X,Cao L*, Fox AD, Goroshko O, Batbayar N, Prosser DJ, and Xiao X*. Low Survival Rates of Swan Geese (Anser cygnoides) Estimated from Neck-Collar Resighting and Telemetry. Waterbirds 39(3):277-286.
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9. Zhang Y, Prins HH., Cao L*, Zhao M, and de Boer WF. 2016. Variation in Elevation and Sward Height Facilitate Coexistence of Goose Species through Allometric Responses in Wetlands. Waterbirds 39(1):34-44. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1675/063.039.0105.
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13. Wang X, Fox AD, Zhuang X, Cao L*, Meng F, Cong P. 2014. Shifting to an energy-poor diet for nitrogen? Not the case for wintering herbivorous Lesser White-fronted Geese in China. Journal of Ornithology 155: 707-712.
14. Barter M, Zhuang X, Wang X, Cao L*, Lei J, Solovyeva D, Fox AD. 2014. Abundance and distribution of wintering Scaly-sided Mergansers Mergussquamatus in China: where are the missing birds? Bird Conservation International 24: 406-415.
15. Wang X, Fox AD, Cong P, Cao L*. 2013. Food constraints explain distribution of wintering Lesser White-fronted GeeseAnsererythropus in China. Ibis 155: 576-592.
16. Wang X, Zhang Y, Zhao M, Cao L*, Fox AD. 2013. The benefits of being big: effects of body size on energy budgets of three wintering goose species grazing Carex beds in the Yangtze River floodplain, China. Journal of Ornithology 154: 1095-1103.
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18. Fox AD, Cao L*, Zhang Y, Barter M, Zhao MJ, Meng FJ, Wang SL. 2010. Declines in the tuber-feeding waterbird guild at Shengjin Lake National Nature Reserve, China - a barometer of submerged macrophyte collapse. Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 21: 82-91.
19. Guo H, Cao L*, Peng L, Zhao G, Tang S. 2010. Parental care, development of foraging skills, and transition to independence in the Red-footed Booby. Condor 112: 38-47.
20. Cao L*, Zhang Y, Barter M, Lei G. 2010.Anatidaein eastern China during the non-breeding season: geographical distributions and protection status. Biological Conservation 143: 650-659.
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