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Xie X, Yuan K, Yao Y, Sun J, Lin L, Huang Y, Lin G, Luan T, Chen B. Identification of suspended particulate matters as the hotspot of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation-related bacteria and genes in the Pearl River Estuary using metagenomic approaches. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 286:131668. [PMID: 34346346 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Revised: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Bacterial degradation is unequivocally considered as an important way for the cleanup of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) in the aquatic environment. However, the diversity and distribution of PAH-degrading bacterial communities and PAH degradation-related genes (PAHDGs) in ambient environment need to be investigated. In this study, bacteria in the water of the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) were initially separated as the particle-attached bacteria (PAB) and free-living bacteria (FLB), and were further characterized using metagenomic approaches. Proteobacteria (80.1 %) was identified as the most abundant PAH-degrading phylum in the PRE water, followed by Bacteroidetes, Actinobacteria, and Firmicutes. A substantial difference in the community structure was observed between PAH-degrading PAB and FLB. Both of PAH-degrading bacteria and PAHDGs were enriched on the suspended particulate matters (SPMs), with the range of enrichment factor (EF) from 7.84 × 104 to 6.64 × 106 (PAH-degrading bacteria) and from 1.14 × 103 to 1.76 × 105 (PAHDGs). The levels of PAH-degrading bacteria 16 S rRNA genes and PAHDGs on the SPMs were both significantly correlated with those in the aqueous phase (AP) in the PRE water (p < 0.05), indicating a dynamic distribution of PAH-degrading bacteria between these two phases. The total PAH concentrations on the SPMs of the PRE water were also significantly correlated with the total PAHDG levels in the PAB (p < 0.05). Our results suggested that the SPMs could be the important compartment for the elimination of PAHs from the aquatic environment.
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- Xiuqin Xie
- State Key Lab of Bioresource and Biocontrol, School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China
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- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 510275, China
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- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 510275, China
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- State Key Lab of Bioresource and Biocontrol, School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China
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- State Key Lab of Bioresource and Biocontrol, School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Hospital for Occupational Diseases Prevention and Treatment, Guangzhou, 510300, China
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- Longse Technology Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, 510700, China; Shenzhen Research Institute of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, 518000, China
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- State Key Lab of Bioresource and Biocontrol, School of Life Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 510275, China; Institute of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 510275, China.
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Ye F, Huang X, Shi Z, Chen B. The spatial distribution of benthic foraminifera in the Pearl River Estuary, South China and its environmental significance. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2021; 173:113055. [PMID: 34673432 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.113055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2021] [Revised: 10/07/2021] [Accepted: 10/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Thirty surface sediment samples were collected from the Pearl River Estuary, South China, and benthic foraminifera were analyzed in order to understand the relationship between foraminiferal assemblages and environmental parameters. Multivariate analyses showed that the foraminferal assemblages (i.e., abundance and diversity) are correlated with the hydro-sedimentary gradients within the estuary. In addition, the dominant faunal composition seems to be largely influenced by food availability and trace metal contamination in surface sediments. A comparison with historical data from 1980s demonstrated that the foraminiferal abundance and diversity in the lower estuary have dramatically decreased over the last three decades, together with a significant shift in the dominant species. This is most likely due to the cumulative impacts of eutrophication and Cu contamination caused by human activities in the Pearl River basin. This work confirms the value of benthic foraminifera as bio-indicators in polluted estuarine environments.
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- Feng Ye
- State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Deep Earth Science, Guangzhou 510640, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China.
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- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China; Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China; State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
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- School of Marine Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519080, China
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Impact of anthropogenic activities on morphological and deposition flux changes in the Pearl River Estuary, China. Sci Rep 2021; 11:16643. [PMID: 34404884 PMCID: PMC8371162 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96183-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The evolution of the Pearl River Estuary (PRE), China in recent decades has been dominated by human activities. Historical admiralty charts and remote sensing images indicated that from 1936 to 2017, the tidal flat area and water area decreased by 23.6 × 107 m2 and 60.7 × 107 m2, respectively. The average advancing rate of the coastline of the PRE to the sea from 1972 to 2017 reached approximately 64.8 m/year, which is several times or even dozens of times that since the mid-Holocene. Land reclamation was the main reason for the dramatic changes in the water area and coastline. Although the water volume of the PRE showed a decreasing trend from 1936 to 2017, the water volume reduction rates for 1996-2005 and 2005-2017 were only 29% (1.27 × 107 m3/year) and 12% (0.53 × 107 m3/year), respectively, of that for 1936-1972. The combined influences of channel dredging, sand mining, and sediment load reduction caused by dam construction have contributed to this change. From the perspective of the filling up of the estuary, channel dredging, sand mining, and dam construction in the river basin are beneficial for prolonging the life of the estuary.
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Jiang C, Guo H, Wei Y, Yang Z, Wang X, Wen M, Yang L, Zhao L, Zhang H, Zhou P. Ecological restoration is not sufficient for reconciling the trade-off between soil retention and water yield: A contrasting study from catchment governance perspective. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 754:142139. [PMID: 32919318 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Revised: 08/26/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Ecological restoration program (ERP) is widely recognized as an effective measure to combat land degradation and improve environmental quality. However, inappropriate ERPs lead to trade-offs between soil retention and water yield as well as conflicts of soil and water resources between the midstream and the downstream of catchment. This study aims to assess the efficiency of ERPs in soil erosion control and identify the trade-offs between soil retention and water yield through the lens of runoff and sediment regimes in contrasting catchments of the Loess Plateau (LP) and the Karst Plateau (KP). Although favorable climate and rapid vegetation restoration substantially reduced water erosion in both these areas, the hydrological responses were not the same because of climate differences. In the arid LP, water and energy variables correlated closely with vegetation cover. Excessive afforestation programs in drylands increased vegetation transpiration and soil evaporation, further exhausting soil water resources, and eventually causing water yield reduction. However, soil and water conservation programs (SWCPs) in the humid KP reduced sediment yield substantially, and the runoff remained stable. Significant runoff reduction in the midstream of the Yellow River aggravated water scarcity and threatened the downstream water demand. Meanwhile, sediment load decline in the LP and the KP impacted sediment deposition in the downstream and estuary formation. From the perspective of integrated catchment governance, human interventions including ERP and SWCP should be more sustainable and consider not only the target process at the local scale (intracoupling effect), but also unprecedented non-target process at the regional scale (telecoupling effect). In addition, it should allow for the supply-demand balance of competing soil and water resources to achieve the coordinated development of resources, environment, and production.
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- Chong Jiang
- Guangdong Open Laboratory of Geospatial Information Technology and Application, Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou 510070, PR China; Key Lab of Guangdong for Utilization of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, Guangzhou 510070, PR China; School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
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- Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, PR China
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
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- Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, PR China
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- Guangdong Open Laboratory of Geospatial Information Technology and Application, Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou 510070, PR China; Key Lab of Guangdong for Utilization of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, Guangzhou 510070, PR China
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- Guangdong Open Laboratory of Geospatial Information Technology and Application, Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou 510070, PR China; Key Lab of Guangdong for Utilization of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, Guangzhou 510070, PR China
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- Guangdong Open Laboratory of Geospatial Information Technology and Application, Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou 510070, PR China; Key Lab of Guangdong for Utilization of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, Guangzhou 510070, PR China
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- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China
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- Guangdong Open Laboratory of Geospatial Information Technology and Application, Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou 510070, PR China; Key Lab of Guangdong for Utilization of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, Guangzhou 510070, PR China.
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Ma L, Wang W, Xie MW, Wang WX, Evans RD. Using Zn Isotopic Signatures for Source Identification in a Contaminated Estuary of Southern China. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2020; 54:5140-5149. [PMID: 32202770 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b05955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Zinc isotope ratios in water and suspended particles (SP) were measured in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE), China. Site-to-site δ66Zn values in water varied by approximately 1.3‰ (i.e., -0.66‰ to 0.65‰ relative to IRMM-3702 in August 2017). There were larger variations in δ66Zn values in water collected from the east shore (i.e., -0.66‰ to 0.37‰) of the PRE close to industrialized areas, in comparison to those from the western shore (i.e., -0.23‰ to 0.13‰), indicating that the PRE was influenced by different Zn sources. The variations in δ66Zn values in water from estuarine locations were much larger than those collected from river mouths. Similarly, larger variations in δ66Zn values were observed in suspended particles (i.e., -1.45‰ to 0.63‰) relative to the water. Zinc isotopic differences (i.e., Δ66Zn‰) between particles and water were significantly (p < 0.05) and linearly correlated with Zn concentrations in particles between 0.8 and 10 μm in size at most of the estuary stations, suggesting that Zn partitioning between dissolved and particulate phases influences the observed differences in Zn isotope ratios. A significant (p < 0.0001) linear correlation between the predicted δ66Zn values (using variations in water salinities) vs observed δ66Zn values indicates that Zn isotope ratios in water in the PRE can be useful for predicting the mixing processes in the water.
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- Lan Ma
- Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9L 0G2
- School of Energy and Environment and State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9L 0G2
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- College of Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Fujian 361102, People's Republic of China
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- School of Energy and Environment and State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- Water Quality Centre, Trent University, 1600 West Bank Drive, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9L 0G2
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Mafi-Gholami D, Zenner EK, Jaafari A, Riyahi Bakhtyari HR, Tien Bui D. Multi-hazards vulnerability assessment of southern coasts of Iran. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2019; 252:109628. [PMID: 31585255 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2019] [Revised: 09/12/2019] [Accepted: 09/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Coastal vulnerability assessment has become one of the most important tools for decision making and providing effective managerial solutions to reduce adverse socio-economic impacts of multiple environmental hazards on coupled social-ecological systems of coastal areas. The aim of this study was to assess the vulnerability of the northern coasts of the Persian Gulf (PG) and the Gulf of Oman (GO) in the Hormozgan province of Iran. Nine variables of vulnerability that included the rate of coastline change, relative sea level rise, coastal slope, mean tidal range, coastal geomorphology, significant wave height (SWH), extreme storm surge, population density, and fishing intensity were weighted, mapped, and combined into the Coastal vulnerability index (CVI). Experts viewed sea level rise, shoreline change and extreme storm surge as most important for imparting vulnerabilities on the northern coasts of PG and GO. Socio-economic variables (i.e., population density and fishery intensity) were considered least important. Of the total length of the provincial shoreline, 27% were classified into the very low vulnerability class, 31% into the low, 17.4% into the moderate, 15.4% into the high, and 9.2% into the very high vulnerability class. About 1295 km (58%) of shorelines were classified into the low and very low vulnerability classes (CVI value ≤ 8.32) and mainly consisted of shorelines on the western coast along the PG. In contrast, 553 km (24.6%) of shorelines were classified into the high and very high vulnerability classes (CVI values > 13.39) and were located along the central coasts (especially in the Qeshm Island and Strait of Hormuz) and on the east coasts of the GO. At least a quarter of all shorelines in the province have high and very high vulnerability to environmental hazards that are the harbingers of climate change.
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- Davood Mafi-Gholami
- Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resources and Earth Sciences, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran.
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- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, The Pennsylvania State University, Forest Resources Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resources and Earth Sciences, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran
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- Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 550000, Viet Nam.
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Wu Y, He Y, Wu M, Lu C, Gao S, Xu Y. Multifractality and cross-correlation analysis of streamflow and sediment fluctuation at the apex of the Pearl River Delta. Sci Rep 2018; 8:16553. [PMID: 30410076 PMCID: PMC6224538 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-35032-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The fluctuation and distribution of hydrological signals are highly related to the fluvial and geophysical regime at estuarine regions. Based on the long daily streamflow and sediment data of Makou (MK) and Sanshui (SS) stations at the apex of the Pearl River Delta, the scaling behavior of the streamflow and sediment is explored by multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MF-DFA). The results indicated that there was significant multifractal structure present in the fluctuations of streamflow and sediment. Meanwhile, the multifractal degree and complexity of sediment were much stronger than streamflow. Although the scaling exponents of streamflow were larger than sediment at both MK and SS, no evident differences have been found on the scaling properties of streamflow and sediment for the ratios MK/SS. Moreover, the cross-correlation between streamflow and sediment is further detected by Multifractal Detrended Cross-Correlation Analysis (MF-DXA). The multifractal response between streamflow and sediment at small timescale is characterized by long-range correlations whereas it exhibits random behavior at large timescale. The interaction of the broadness of probability density function and the long-range correlations should be responsible for the multifractal properties of hydrological time series as the multifractal degree of surrogate and shuffled data was significantly undermined.
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- Yao Wu
- Key Laboratory of the Pearl River Estuarine Dynamics and Associated Process Regulation, Ministry of the Water Resources, Guangzhou, 510610, China. .,Pearl River Hydraulic Research Institute, Pearl River Water Resources Commission, Guangzhou, 510610, China.
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- Key Laboratory of the Pearl River Estuarine Dynamics and Associated Process Regulation, Ministry of the Water Resources, Guangzhou, 510610, China.,Pearl River Hydraulic Research Institute, Pearl River Water Resources Commission, Guangzhou, 510610, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Pearl River Estuarine Dynamics and Associated Process Regulation, Ministry of the Water Resources, Guangzhou, 510610, China.,Pearl River Hydraulic Research Institute, Pearl River Water Resources Commission, Guangzhou, 510610, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Pearl River Estuarine Dynamics and Associated Process Regulation, Ministry of the Water Resources, Guangzhou, 510610, China.,Pearl River Hydraulic Research Institute, Pearl River Water Resources Commission, Guangzhou, 510610, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Pearl River Estuarine Dynamics and Associated Process Regulation, Ministry of the Water Resources, Guangzhou, 510610, China.,Pearl River Hydraulic Research Institute, Pearl River Water Resources Commission, Guangzhou, 510610, China
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- College of Harbor, Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, China
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