Abstract:
Migratory birds are the most indicative taxa of terrestrial biodiversity and are highly sensitive to ecology, but due to accelerating urbanisation, the loss of habitats for a large number of migratory birds has become a serious threat to their survival. Therefore, the construction of habitat network aiming at migratory bird habitat protection is particularly important. Through VOSviewer 1.6.20 combined with Bibliometrix, relevant studies at home and abroad from 2013 to 2023 were metrologically analysed, and the keyword co-occurrence knowledge map was compared to sort out the high-frequency keywords and analyse the different hot trends of the current habitat network-related studies under the perspective of migratory bird conservation. The results show that: 1) The relevant research can be summarized into four hot trends, including research on the construction and optimization of migratory bird habitat network, migratory bird protection and adaptive mechanism, migratory bird habitat protection and management, and migratory bird monitoring and assessment system. 2) Although European and American countries have the advantage, China is still one of the hotspot countries, and the Poyang Lake and the Yellow Sea are also the hotspots of their research, which has natural advantages and great research potentials. 3) The results of this study show that: 1) China has the advantage of being the most important country in the world for migratory bird conservation. (3) Richard A. Fuller, Theunis Piersma, etc. are the core scholars in this research field, and there are many articles published in Biological Conservation journals, and the School of Biological Sciences of the University of Queensland, Global Flight Network (GFN), etc. are the main forces in this research. (4) Based on the perspective of migratory birds conservation, we propose the ‘Migratory Bird Conservation’. 4) Based on the perspective of migratory bird conservation, it is proposed that the ‘multi-scale coupling’ and ‘multi-perspective joint’ approach can be used to connect the current national land planning scheme, and the three-span cooperation approach can make up for the shortcomings of the existing methodology to adapt to the different land uses in the future, which may be the focus of the future research.