(3/3) Changes in land cover and legal protection may also have contributed to this expansion.

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(2/3) 💡Our findings suggest that the main driver is the population increase—both in Portugal and likely across the entire East Atlantic population—combined with the occupation of previously suitable, but unused, wetlands.