Wang, Xuejing
Que, Pinjia
Heckel, Gerald
Hu, Junhua
Zhang, Xuecong
Chiang, Chung-Yu
Zhang, Nan
Huang, Qin
Liu, Simin
Martinez, Jonathan
Pagani-Núñez, Emilio
Dingle, Caroline
Leung, Yu Yan
Székely, Tamás
Zhang, Zhengwang
Liu, Yang http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4580-5518
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31301875, 31572251, 31600297, 31572288)
Open Grant of the State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol of Sun Yat-sen University (SKLBC13KF03)
Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015304)
Computational machinery work was granted by the Special Program for Applied Research on Super Computation of the NSFC-Guangdong Joint Fund (U1501501)
Article History
Received: 2 October 2018
Accepted: 29 May 2019
First Online: 27 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study did not involve endangered or protected species. The protocol of our study, including blood collection procedures, measurements and stable isotope analysis was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Ethical Committee of Animal Experimentation of Sun Yat-sen University (2005DKA21403-JK). We strictly complied with the ethical conditions by the Chinese Animal Welfare Act (20090606). Also, bird captures, banding, measurement and sample collection were performed with permission from the respective authorities (Mainland China: Beijing Normal University to P.J.Q., which covered the study site 2–9 in Fig.InternalRef removed, and Sun Yat-sen University to Y.L., which covered the study site 1, 12–19 Fig.InternalRef removed; Taiwan: Changhua County Government, New Taipei City Government and Kinmen County Government to C.Y.C., which covered the study site 10–11 Fig.InternalRef removed).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.