Predicting and understanding spatio-temporal dynamics of species recovery : implications for Asian crested ibis Nipponia nippon conservation in China

Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31372218) and cofunded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) and the ITC Research Fund, Enschede, the Netherlands. We thank Shaanxi Hanzhong Crested Ibis National Nature Reserve for sharing the data of nest site locations. We are grateful to Brendan Wintle, Justin Travis and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on a previous version of the manuscript.

Sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) and anchor worms (Lernaea cyprinacea) found on sea trout (Salmo trutta) in the River Minho catchment, an important area for conservation in NW Spain

Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank M. N. Cueto and J. M. Antonio (ECOBIOMAR) for molecular analysis and technical support. K. MacKenzie (University of Aberdeen) and A. Roura (ECOBIOMAR) assisted with the taxonomic identification of parasites. We are also grateful to P. Caballero (Service Nature Conservation of the Xunta de Galicia) for fish sampling support.