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Gross Nitrogen Mineralization in Surface Sediments of the Yangtze Estuary. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Nitrogen mineralization is a key biogeochemical process transforming organic nitrogen to inorganic nitrogen in estuarine and coastal sediments. Although sedimentary nitrogen mineralization is an important internal driver for aquatic eutrophication, few ...
Xianbiao Lin +6 more
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Land claim and loss of tidal flats in the Yangtze Estuary. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2016 AbstractTidal flats play a critical role in supporting biodiversity and in providing ecosystem services but are rapidly disappearing because of human activities. The Yangtze Estuary is one of the world’s largest alluvial estuaries and is adjacent to the most developed economic zone in China.
Chen Y +7 more
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Autumn ichthyoplankton assemblage in the Yangtze Estuary shaped by environmental factors [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 This study investigated the response of the ichthyoplankton community to environmental changes in the Yangtze Estuary using canonical correspondence analysis. Ichthyoplankton community and environmental data were recorded during the autumns of 1998, 2000,
Hui Zhang, Weiwei Xian, Shude Liu
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PAEs and PBDEs in plastic fragments and wetland sediments in Yangtze estuary. [PDF]
J Hazard Mater, 2021 Phthalates (PAEs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are widely used as additives in various plastic products. Because of their ubiquity and potential hazards to the environment, they have attracted widespread attention. This research supports the addition critical data of the concentration and distribution of PAEs and PBDEs in the plastic ...
Deng H +7 more
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Seasonal Variation of Shoreline Fish Assemblages at Two Stations in the Southern Branch of the Yangtze River Estuary [PDF]
BiologyThe Yangtze River Estuary is one of the most productive estuarine ecosystems in the western Pacific, supporting diverse fish communities that sustain ecosystem functioning.
Bo Feng +4 more
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Research on the regulation of Three Gorges Reservoir in response to saltwater intrusion in the Yangtze River Estuary [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 With the changes of economic society and human activities to the natural environment, the impact of saltwater intrusion becomes more frequent and the degree of harm becomes more serious.
Cheng Xiaodong, Xu Tao
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Fishes, 2021 An estuary region is a complex environment with a transition from fresh to brackish to salt water, and in which some environmental factors change dramatically over small ranges.
Weizhao Meng +6 more
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Shuili Shuiyun Gongcheng Xuebao, 2023 With the global warming, the sea level is rising at an accelerated rate. The Yangtze River estuary, located in the northwest edge of the storm basin in the northwest Pacific Ocean, with a low-lying terrain, is assessed as a vulnerable area under the ...
WANG Fen, TAN Ya, LIU Shicheng
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THE BRANCHING CHANNEL NETWORK IN THE YANGTZE ESTUARY [PDF]
Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 2012 The channels in the Yangtze Estuary have an ordered-branching structure: The estuary is first divided by the Chongming Island into the North Branch and the South Branch. Then the South Branch is divided into the North Channel and South Channel by the Islands Changxing and Hengsha.
Wang, Z.B. (author), Ding, P.X. (author)
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Shuili Shuiyun Gongcheng Xuebao, 2021 Driven by global changes and human activities, the sediment source/transport, and riverbed erosion and deposition pattern of the Yangtze River Basin are undergoing continuous adjustments, which influence both magnitude and property of fluvial sediment to
CHEN Yawang +6 more
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