The Leizhou Peninsula, located in the northern South China Sea, features coastal waters with dual functions as both marine ranch demonstration zones and ecological protection areas. Remote sensing monitoring of Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentration in...
Over the past two decades, the Leizhou Peninsula has suffered from many geological hazards and great property losses caused by land subsidence. However, the absence of a deformation map of the whole peninsula has impeded the government in making the...
Bacterial communities play vital roles in coastal biogeochemical cycling and ecological stability. Despite their importance, a significant knowledge gap exists regarding their spatiotemporal dynamics and assembly mechanisms in the tropical coastal wa...
Effective vegetation restoration plays an important role in maintaining and improving soil nutrients and can promote the fixation of soil organic carbon (SOC) and its fractions in degraded soil areas. To understand the influence of Eucalyptus plantat...
Soil microorganisms are important decomposers in soil, and they play important roles in litter degradation, nutrient cycle and balance, soil physicochemical property improvement, and soil fertility maintenance. To understand the influence of Eucalypt...
Marine fungi are pivotal components of coastal ecosystems, facilitating essential biogeochemical cycling and trophic dynamics. However, the complex mechanisms governing their spatiotemporal community patterns in tropical–subtropical coasts rema...
Mangrove actinomycetia are considered one of the promising sources for discovering novel biologically active compounds. Traditional bioactivity- and/or taxonomy-based methods are inefficient and usually result in the re-discovery of known metabolites...
To investigate the seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton community structure and its relationship with environmental factors in the coastal waters of the Leizhou Peninsula, China, surveys were conducted at 21 stations during four seasonal cruises: autum...
Background: Mangrove plants are a core component of coastal ecosystems, directly influencing biodiversity and shoreline stability. However, in recent years, due to the combined pressures of human activities and climate change, nearly half of the mang...
Heavy metal pollution threatens coastal ecosystems. Mangrove sediments, as transitional zones, are prone to contaminant accumulation. This study investigated eight heavy metals (Cu, Pb, Ni, As, Cr, Zn, Cd, Co) in Liusha Bay (Leizhou Peninsula, China)...
Selecting suitable clones and regulating nutrients for Eucalyptus plantation are a key management practice for improving productivity and nutrient use. Therefore, this study evaluated growth performance, above-ground biomass, nutrient content (nitrog...
Fengshui forests are cultural-ecological landscape units that preserve native vegetation, ritual memory, and village-based conservation practices on the Leizhou Peninsula. However, recent land-use change has increased the risk of native-core loss, pl...
Understanding the effects of land use on soil structure and nutrients is important for soil and water conservation in an ecologically fragile zone. This study was carried out to examine the variability of physicochemical properties in three different...
How much transpiration water consumption varies between eucalyptus species is unknown, making the suitability of a particular eucalyptus species for large-scale planting in a given area, or whether interspecific differences need to be taken into acco...
The growth rate of eucalyptus in the dry season was significantly lower than that in the wet season. However, the limiting factors of eucalyptus growth in the dry season are not clear. In this paper, through the continuous monitoring of the diameter...
The variability of storm surge poses a significant threat to coastal areas. A new metric named Accumulated Storm surge Potential Impact (ASPI) is proposed based on a new intensity parameter that removes other components from storm surge-induced water...
A practical approach was developed in the study for drought monitoring in Guangdong province of China on the basis of vegetation supply water index (VSWI) and precipitation distance index (PDI). A comprehensive index for assessment of agro-drought se...
Two new coumarin derivatives, 4,4′-dimethoxy-5,5′-dimethyl-7,7′-oxydicoumarin (1), 7-(γ,γ-dimethylallyloxy)-5-methoxy-4-methylcoumarin (2), a new chromone derivative, (S)-5-hydroxy-2,6-dimethyl-4H-furo[3,4-g]benzopyran-4,8(6H)-dione (5), and a new st...
A total of 388 surface sediment samples taken from the northern South China Sea (SCS) continental shelf were analyzed to characterize the signature of their rare earth elements (REEs). The average REEs concentration was 192.94 μg/g, with a maximum...
A tropical depression (TD) formed over the northern part of the South China Sea and affected Hong Kong during 25–26 June 2025. Based on the historical database, there were not many TDs following a similar track in the past, namely, a northwestw...
Long-term geographic isolation and breeding programs both influence population characteristics. Leiqiong cattle, a native breed from the southernmost region of China, are renowned for disease and heat resistance, with two subgroups on Hainan Island a...
Understanding soil microbial community assembly in endangered mangrove ecosystems is crucial for ecological conservation. This study investigated the diversity and drivers of soil microbiomes across Barringtonia racemosa communities (pure: T1; associ...
Based on both physical and biological data collected from multi-source satellite during summer typhoon Linfa, we found that the typhoon triggered two phytoplankton declines and three phytoplankton blooms in the northern South China Sea (SCS), where t...
Mangrove restoration projects are often evaluated based on the increase in mangrove forest (MF) area, but the reliability of this indicator as a measure of successful restoration is questionable. Considering both numerical and quality dimensions, thi...
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The Beibu Gulf (also named the Gulf of Tonkin), located in the northwest of the South China Sea, is representative of a bay suffering from turbulence and contamination associated with rapid industrialization and urbanization. In this study, we aim to...
Hematite and goethite are widely occurring chromogenic iron oxides in soils and sediments that are sensitive to climatic dry/wet shifts. However, only by accurately quantifying the content or ratio of hematite and goethite can they be applied reliabl...
Coastal mangroves are increasingly recognized as valuable natural resources and important sites of water and carbon exchange. In this study, we examine atmospheric water cycling in the boundary layer above a coastal mangrove forest in southern China....
We studied the effects of stand age on the allocation of biomass and allometric relationships among component biomass in five stands ages (1, 3, 5, 7, and 8 years old) of two eucalypts hybrids, including Eucalyptus urophylla × E. grandis and E....
The coastal zone is essential to economic and social development. However, coastline evolution is a complex research topic, owing to the intersection and coupling of different fields such as wind, wave, and current. Research is further complicated by...
Mangroves play a crucial role in supporting the biodiversity of coastal wetlands, acting as a vital link between terrestrial and marine ecosystems. In mainland China, Sonneratia apetala, an invasive mangrove species, has recently become dominant in t...
In the context of global warming, compound dry-hot events (CDHEs) are intensifying in Guangdong, yet CMIP6 projections remain uncertain. This study employs CMIP6 data and the Standardized Compound Event Indicator (SCEI) to quantify CDHEs severity, ap...