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Detecting Shoreline Changes in Typical Coastal Wetlands of Bohai Rim in North China

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Coastal wetland shoreline change represents one of the most important land-ocean interaction processes in complex and dynamic coastal environment. This paper presents the detecting of shoreline changes in four typical coastal wetlands of ecological importance along Bohai rim based on multi-temporal shorelines extracted from obtained Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) images using automatic binarization algorithm. Results showed that although there were statistical uncertainties dominant trends of the shoreline changes could be detected and sections that had significant area changes could be identified from satellite images. The reasons for corresponding changes occurred in these wetlands were stated in terms of natural processes and anthropogenic activities. It is our anticipation that this work would help future studies to reveal the regional/national pattern of wetland changes and support wetland protection and management in China’s coast zone.

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Acknowledgments

This research is supported by the CAS Strategic Priority Research Program Grant No.XDA05130703 and the Knowledge Innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences No. KZCX2-YW-224. We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers and the associate editor for extremely helpful comments. We thank the China Oceanic Information Network and site data collection and processing staff for contributing to tidal station data, and the agencies and institutions that funded long-term records at these sites.

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  1. Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 17, Chuihui Road, 264003, Yantai, China

    Yuandong Wang, Xiyong Hou, Ping Shi & Liangju Yu

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19, Yuquan Road, 100049, Beijing, China

    Yuandong Wang

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Wang, Y., Hou, X., Shi, P. et al. Detecting Shoreline Changes in Typical Coastal Wetlands of Bohai Rim in North China. Wetlands 33, 617–629 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-013-0418-9

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