Coastal and Marine Environmental Ecology Problems Identified and Addressed by Means of Artificial Intelligence Tools

Dear Colleagues,

The coastal area is one of the important land–sea interface zones, which is quite sensitive to the perturbation by human activities and climate change. It is greatly affected by urbanization, rapid population growth, high industrial concentration, and natural changes. The coastal environment and ecology have led to highly undesirable ecosystem structure and function conditions. So, human-induced and natural changes affecting biodiversity, environmental change, mangroves, seagrasses, and coral reefs in estuarine and coastal ecosystems are major challenges for research and management. Recognizing these environmental issues and drafting relevant management policies are important for sustainable socio-economic development. Therefore, environmental problems and ecological responses such as harmful algal blooms (HABs), organic pollutants, microplastics, and heavy metal pollution will be explained by artificial intelligence, chemometrics, and multivariate statistical analysis.

This Special Issue aims to combine classical and innovative studies of methods and techniques for these problems.  Artificial intelligence, such as data mining, multivariate statistical analysis, and chemometrics, emphasizes environmental and ecological problems.

Prof. Dr. Meilin Wu
Prof. Dr. Hui Zhao
Guest Editors

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