Ecological or functional categorizations and encounter rate (no of individuals per point) of all species recorded from e-waste exposed, surrounding, and reference sites in Guangdong, China. Data on three key ecological or functional traits (i.e. habitat preference, dietary guild and migratory status) were primarily collated from Zhao (2001) and Zhang et al. (2011).

aHabitat preference codes: “artificial marshland or wetland (AW)”; “aquatic ponds and paddy (AP)”; “woodland specialist (WS)”; “edge-tolerant woodland species (EWS)”; “non-forest dependent species (e.g., plantation and orchard; NFS)”; “generalist (G)”; “aerial species (A)”; “grassland and shrub users (GSU)” and “open-habitat species (OS)”. bDietary guild codes: “carnivore (CA)”, “arboreal foliage glean insectivore (AI)”, “arboreal foliage glean insectivore-frugivore (AIF)”, “sallying insectivore (SI)”, “terrestrial insectivore (TI)”, “miscellaneous insectivore (MI)”, “terrestrial insectivore-frugivore (TIF)”, “arboreal frugivore (AF)”, “terrestrial granivores (TG)”, “miscellaneous insectivore-piscivore (MIP)”, and “aquatic invertebrate (AQI)”. cMigrations status codes: Permanent resident (R), Winter visitor (W), Summer visitor (S), and Passage migrant (P).
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