Losses of salt marsh in China: Trends, threats and management

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 214, Issue , 2018, Pages 98-109

  Gu, Jiali ^a   Luo, Min ^a   Zhang, Xiujuan ^a   Christakos, George ^a,b   Agusti, Susana ^c   Duarte, Carlos M ^c   Wu, Jiaping ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Coastal zone management; Land reclamation; Salt marshes; Sea level changes; Temporal variations

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND RECLAMATION; MITIGATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SUCCESSION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; CHONGMING ISLAND; DONGTAN; JIANGSU; JIUDUANSHA; LIAOHE RIVER; SHANDONG; SHANGHAI; YELLOW RIVER DELTA;

EID: 85053778600     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2018.09.015     Document Type: Review

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