An ecological perspective on shoaly land in China
我国沿海滩涂景观生态初步研究

In light with principles of landscape ecology, we divide Shoaly Land into four types: Mud Flat, Sand Beach, Bench, and Biologic Flat, and identify that this typical open system has six landscape ecological characteristics: fragile landscape, distinct edge effect, spatial agglomeration of physical elements, spatial dynamic movement, obvious heterogeneity, and spatial differentiation. In the end, we put forward some proposals for the development of Shoaly Land.