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Coastal ecosystem vulnerability assessment was carried out for further better management of marine environment in southeast China. As a research sample area, the coastal of Dongshan Bay was divided into 138 evaluation units according to the geological and topographic features for anecosystem vulnerability assessment. The index system was established according to the “pressure-state-response” evaluation model. The calculated results were analyzed and evaluated through comprehensive assessment methods. The evaluation results illustrated that the fragile ecosystem in concentrated at two regions: one was the estuary of Zhangjiang river mangrove national nature reserve region, another one was the reclaim beach for aquaculture near the Shaxi town in north Dongshan Bay. In consideration of the evaluation results, more protection measures should be applied into these two areas.
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Ni, J., Hou, J., Wang, J., Cai, L. (2015). Assessment of Coastal Ecosystem Vulnerability of Dongshan Bay in Southeast China Sea. In: Bian, F., Xie, Y. (eds) Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem. GRMSE 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 482. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45737-5_33
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