Review of drivers and threats to coastal groundwater quality in China

D Han, MJ Currell - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
With rapid socio-economic development, China's coastal areas are among the fastest
growing and most economically dynamic regions in the world. Under the influence of climate …

Coastal eutrophication in China: Trend, sources, and ecological effects

Y Wang, D Liu, W **ao, P Zhou, C Tian, C Zhang, J Du… - Harmful Algae, 2021 - Elsevier
Eutrophication in coastal waters caused by excess nutrient inputs has occurred widely on a
global scale. Due to the rapid economic development over the last four decades, most of the …

Pollution assessment and sources of dissolved heavy metals in coastal water of a highly urbanized coastal area: The role of groundwater discharge

M Luo, Y Zhang, H Li, W Hu, K **ao, S Yu… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Heavy metal concentrations and physicochemical parameters in coastal waters were
measured to analyze the spatial distribution characteristics, pollution degrees, and sources …

Groundwater dynamics in subterranean estuaries of coastal unconfined aquifers: Controls on submarine groundwater discharge and chemical inputs to the ocean

CE Robinson, P **n, IR Santos, MA Charette… - Advances in Water …, 2018 - Elsevier
Sustainable coastal resource management requires sound understanding of interactions
between coastal unconfined aquifers and the ocean as these interactions influence the flux …

Advances in the study of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) in China

Y Zhang, X Wang, Y Xue, C Zou, M Luo, G Li… - Science China Earth …, 2022 - Springer
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a critical land-ocean process in coastal areas
and an essential component of the global hydrological cycle. Thus, hydrologists and …

Effect of submarine groundwater discharge on nutrient distribution and eutrophication in Liaodong Bay, China

M Luo, Y Zhang, K **ao, X Wang, X Zhang, G Li, H Li - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Driven by the anthropogenic activities associated with coastal settlements, eutrophication
has become a global issue. Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a significant …

Factors influencing the occurrence and distribution of microplastics in coastal sediments: from source to sink

X Sun, T Wang, B Chen, AM Booth, S Liu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) pollution is attracting growing global attention, but little is known about the
factors influencing MP occurrence and distributions in marine sediments. Here, MPs were …

Radium and nitrogen isotopes tracing fluxes and sources of submarine groundwater discharge driven nitrate in an urbanized coastal area

X Wang, Y Zhang, M Luo, K **ao, Q Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The quantitative evaluations of nutrients delivered by submarine groundwater discharge
(SGD) have been widely conducted worldwide, but sources of nutrients in the discharged …

A comprehensive analysis of submarine groundwater discharge and nutrient fluxes in the Bohai Sea, China

X Zhang, H Li, X Wang, X Kuang, Y Zhang, K **ao… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Groundwater discharge and associated nutrient fluxes in the Bohai Sea, China has attracted
great attention, but most studies lacked high spatial resolution for the whole sea. As the …

Does submarine groundwater discharge contribute to summer hypoxia in the Changjiang (Yangtze) River Estuary?

X Guo, B Xu, WC Burnett, Q Wei, H Nan, S Zhao… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Changjiang (Yangtze) River Estuary (CJE) is one of the largest and most
intense seasonal hypoxic zones in the world. Here we examine the possibility that …