Land claim and loss of tidal flats in the Yangtze Estuary

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chen, Ying ^a,b   Dong, Jinwei ^b   Xiao, Xiangming ^a,b   Zhang, Min ^c   Tian, Bo ^c   Zhou, Yunxuan ^c   Li, Bo ^a   Ma, Zhijun ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ALGORITHM; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTUARY; GEOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RIVER; SEDIMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARIES; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84962383416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep24018     Document Type: Article

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