financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41471068,41171325,41230751,and J1103408);the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(Grant No.NCET-12-0264);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities;the Priority Academic Program Development of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD);the National Key Project of Scientific and Technical Supporting Programs funded by the Ministry of Science&Technology of China(Grant No.2012BAH28B04)
Jiangsu has the most abundant tidal flat resources among China's coastal provinces. To ease the conflict between the growing population and shrinking usable land and to promote regional sustainable development, large...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40876043,40976051 andJ1103408);Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Ocean (Grant No. 201105001-2);the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions fund
The morphological characteristics of small-scale bedforms were measured by means of an acoustic profiling sonar on the Dafeng tidal flat, Jiangsu, in 2009, and in the Jiulong Estuary, Xiamen, in 2010, respectively. T...