RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES FOR ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENTS
Keywords:
Ecology, Aquatic ecology, Estuarine ecology, Marine environmentAbstract
Estuaries are important transition areas connecting freshwater and marine environments and play an important role in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. The ecological integrity of estuaries is critical to the sustainable management and conservation of ecosystems. This article conducts a bibliometric analysis on the ecological integrity evaluation of estuaries, focusing on the evaluation methods and index selection of estuary ecological integrity evaluation. It mainly includes physical and chemical indicators, biological indicators and socioeconomic indicators. The importance of selecting different indicators for the evaluation of estuary ecological integrity is systematically analyzed through case studies. Finally, it was pointed out that some problems still faced in the evaluation of estuary ecological integrity were pointed out, and several suggestions were put forward to address these problems.References
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