The tidal flat, located at the forefront of the coastal estuary wetland, serves as a peripheral
defense line to maintain the stable ecological function of the estuary wetland. Therefore, the …

Estuaries, vital coastal ecosystems, face growing threats from industrialization. To
understand the pace of sedimentary changes and heavy metal pollution at the …

Coastal seas receive and store large amounts of organic carbon (OC) from land and ocean,
thereby playing a crucial role in the global carbon cycle. Understanding factors that …

Estuarine dams are constructed for securing freshwater resources, flood control, and
improving upstream navigability. However, their impact on estuarine currents, stratification …

Shallow gas is generally extensively distributed in the Holocene muddy sediments and gas
seepage has been increasingly reported to induce geohazards in coastal seas, but controls …

While estuarine dams can develop freshwater resources and block the salt intrusion, they
can result in increased sediment deposition in the estuary. The mechanism of increased …

Tidal flats, crucial for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are facing significant alterations
due to human activities such as reclamation. In South Korea, over 65% of tidal flats have …

Estuaries have great ecological and economic value and sustain both population and
economic growth. Global‐scale analyses suggest that human activities drive estuarine area …

Sediment management is currently limited by uncertainties in the applicability of existing
radionuclide tracers and the effects of urbanization. Here, we use plutonium isotopes (239+ …

The rapid advance of remote sensing technology during the last few decades provides a
new opportunity for measuring detectable estuarine spatial change. Although estuarine …