The Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Interactions between Urban Expansion and Tidal Flat Dynamics: A Case Study of Three Highly Urbanized Coastal Counties in the Southeastern United States
Tidal flats are widely recognized as sentinels of coastal environment change, and are also the guardians for beachfront communities. As a result of urban expansion, tidal flats have increasingly received environmental pressures and the surrounding ecosystem has been functionally downgraded. However,...
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| description | Tidal flats are widely recognized as sentinels of coastal environment change, and are also the guardians for beachfront communities. As a result of urban expansion, tidal flats have increasingly received environmental pressures and the surrounding ecosystem has been functionally downgraded. However, the existing studies could not provide an effective method to identify and quantify the interactions between urban areas and tidal flats, which is essential work particularly for the coastal preservations in the United States. Aiming at this environmental crisis, we proposed an approach which quantifies the change patterns from a spatiotemporal perspective. To justify the rationality and feasibility of this approach, this study selected three highly urbanized coastal counties in the southeastern United States as the study area. We analyzed the annual dynamics during 1985~2015, and the generated spatiotemporal regularities were used to identify and quantify the correlations between urban expansion and tidal flat dynamics. This study not only justified that the coastal urban expansion could considerably damage the environment of tidal flats, but also verified an effective approach to investigate the correlations between urban expansion and tidal flat loss on a large spatiotemporal scale. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-768603c42eed4e55803b3e0627e12a602023-11-23T16:21:32ZengMDPI AGEarth2673-48342022-04-013255757610.3390/earth3020033The Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Interactions between Urban Expansion and Tidal Flat Dynamics: A Case Study of Three Highly Urbanized Coastal Counties in the Southeastern United StatesChao Xu0Weibo Liu1Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USADepartment of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USATidal flats are widely recognized as sentinels of coastal environment change, and are also the guardians for beachfront communities. As a result of urban expansion, tidal flats have increasingly received environmental pressures and the surrounding ecosystem has been functionally downgraded. However, the existing studies could not provide an effective method to identify and quantify the interactions between urban areas and tidal flats, which is essential work particularly for the coastal preservations in the United States. Aiming at this environmental crisis, we proposed an approach which quantifies the change patterns from a spatiotemporal perspective. To justify the rationality and feasibility of this approach, this study selected three highly urbanized coastal counties in the southeastern United States as the study area. We analyzed the annual dynamics during 1985~2015, and the generated spatiotemporal regularities were used to identify and quantify the correlations between urban expansion and tidal flat dynamics. This study not only justified that the coastal urban expansion could considerably damage the environment of tidal flats, but also verified an effective approach to investigate the correlations between urban expansion and tidal flat loss on a large spatiotemporal scale.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4834/3/2/33tidal flatsurban expansionspatiotemporal correlationcoastal environmentland cover transition |
| spellingShingle | Chao Xu Weibo Liu The Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Interactions between Urban Expansion and Tidal Flat Dynamics: A Case Study of Three Highly Urbanized Coastal Counties in the Southeastern United States Earth tidal flats urban expansion spatiotemporal correlation coastal environment land cover transition |
| title | The Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Interactions between Urban Expansion and Tidal Flat Dynamics: A Case Study of Three Highly Urbanized Coastal Counties in the Southeastern United States |
| title_full | The Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Interactions between Urban Expansion and Tidal Flat Dynamics: A Case Study of Three Highly Urbanized Coastal Counties in the Southeastern United States |
| title_fullStr | The Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Interactions between Urban Expansion and Tidal Flat Dynamics: A Case Study of Three Highly Urbanized Coastal Counties in the Southeastern United States |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Interactions between Urban Expansion and Tidal Flat Dynamics: A Case Study of Three Highly Urbanized Coastal Counties in the Southeastern United States |
| title_short | The Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Interactions between Urban Expansion and Tidal Flat Dynamics: A Case Study of Three Highly Urbanized Coastal Counties in the Southeastern United States |
| title_sort | spatiotemporal characteristics and interactions between urban expansion and tidal flat dynamics a case study of three highly urbanized coastal counties in the southeastern united states |
| topic | tidal flats urban expansion spatiotemporal correlation coastal environment land cover transition |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4834/3/2/33 |
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