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Suitability evaluation on marine ranching in Guangdong, South China
The ecological suitability of marine resources and environmental conditions for marine ranching in Guangdong, South China was evaluated. Niche theory was used to establish an ecological suitability evaluation ...
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Rhizosphere microbiome dynamics in tropical seagrass under short-term inorganic nitrogen fertilization
Rhizosphere microbes are crucial to seagrass meadows because they promote plant growth and heath. However, information concerning the response of rhizosphere microorganisms in seagrass sediment in the presence...
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Evaluation of Port Prosperity Based on High Spatial Resolution Satellite Remote Sensing Images
More and more ports appeared along China’s coastline, which destroyed natural coastline and coastal landscape. Some of them are inefficiency operations. It is important to evaluate operational efficiency of po...
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Spatio-temporal Change and Carrying Capacity Evaluation of Human Coastal Utilization in Liaodong Bay, China from 1993 to 2015
In China, promoting the development of coastal areas has been included in a series of national strategic development plans. At the same time, many marine environmental problems have been associated with the ra...
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Open AccessCoastline carrying capacity monitoring and assessment based on GF-1 satellite remote sensing images
The coastline of Zhejiang is the most intensively developed region in China for industry. Based on GF-1 images, an object-oriented classification for coastline was created to monitor coastline exploitation sta...
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Regional difference of coastal land use around the Bohai sea based on remote sensing images
With the thriving development of high spatial resolution sensors, an increasing number of metric and sub-metric resolution remote sensing images are currently available, which allows for accurate geometrical a...
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Open AccessAnalysis of sea use landscape pattern based on GIS: a case study in Huludao, China
This study aims to analyse sea use landscape patterns on a regional scale based on methods of landscape ecology integrated with sea use spatial characteristics. Several landscape-level analysis indices, such a...
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Driving forces and management strategies for estuaries in northern China
Estuaries, which lie at the end of rivers, belong to the interlocking area between marine ecosystems and terrestrial ecosystems. In the estuary region, there are plenty of biological resources that carry many ...
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Biomass dynamics of Quercus aliena var. acutesrata community on Mountain **aolong in Gansu Province, China
The dynamics of tree layer biomass was studied by combining 35 sample plots of field census with biomass model estimation in a natural Quercus aliena var. acutesrata community on Mountain **aolong in Gansu Provin...
