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which would also benefit migrating wading birds. 
Additional studies are required to examine 
detailed reed and grass harvest and irrigation 
regimes, and control of harvest mouse predation. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
Financial support was provided by the Natural Sciences 
Foundation of Eastern Liaoning University (No. 20062-18). 
The authors thank Tianfu Yu, Feng Gao. and K. S. 
Meldrum of Eastern Liaoning University, and Met fang 
Yan, Na Jia. and Zhencao Qu of National Nature Reserve 
Bureau of Yalu River Estuary Wetlands, Dandong. We 
especially thank C. C. Elphick, C. E. Braun, and an 
anonymous reviewer for helpful comments and suggestions 
for improvement of the manuscript. We thank G. C. White 
of Colorado State University for helping us to correctly run 
Program MARK. 
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