A full-life cycle approach is a tenet of migratory species conservation, yet the degree to which this is achieved remains largely unassessed. This knowledge gap can be addressed using the concept of social-ecological fit, understood as the match between governance and ecological dimensions. Here, we assess the social-ecological fit for conserving migratory shorebirds in the Asia–Pacific, focusing on habitat loss and hunting. We identify the governance architectures for addressing these two threats and then assess the coordinating capacity of each architecture, measure institutional coverage for each species across their range, and determine the degree of institutional connectivity along their migratory network. We find that social-ecological fit is higher for the governance of habitat designation than for hunting management, with implications for governance practice. Analyses of social-ecological fit thus provide critical insights on the potential effectiveness of governance and therefore are a useful first step for migratory species conservation.

全生命周期方法是迁徙物种保护的一个宗旨，但实现这一目标的程度在很大程度上仍未得到评估。这种知识差距可以使用社会生态契合的概念来解决，社会生态契合被理解为治理和生态维度之间的匹配。在这里，我们评估了保护亚太地区候鸟的社会生态适应性，重点关注栖息地丧失和狩猎。我们确定了解决这两种威胁的治理架构，然后评估每个架构的协调能力，衡量每个物种在其范围内的机构覆盖范围，并确定沿其迁徙网络的机构连通程度。我们发现栖息地指定治理的社会生态适应性高于狩猎管理，这对治理实践具有影响。因此，对社会生态适应性的分析为治理的潜在有效性提供了重要的见解，因此是迁徙物种保护的有用的第一步。