Land reclamation is defined as the process of creating new land from the sea, often involving filling submerged areas with heavy materials like rock and soil, and draining wetlands for agricultural use. Examples include the construction of artificial islands and significant projects such as the Port of Rotterdam and Singapore's Changi Airport. AI generated definition based on: Marine ...
Moreover, sustainable reclamation is not merely about restoring abandoned farmland to cultivation. It requires a comprehensive consideration of terrain, climate, and human activity, with the formulation of differentiated reclamation priorities and ecological maintenance plans to achieve the sustainable management of land resources.
Wetland reclamation significantly reduces microbial element content and environmental stress, thereby affecting microbial diversity, abundance, and composition across different soil layers (Zhu et al., 2022).
Sea reclamation has mostly focused on the construction of aquaculture ponds, ports and agricultural land since 1980 in mainland China.
Coastal saline soil reclamation is critical for global food security, with soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation being central to rehabilitation. How…
So long as reclamation is required, and the reclamation plan commits to restoration of a certain area to equivalent land capability (as described above) and some wetland function, then the area to be reclaimed is deducted from the wetland area considered to be permanently lost, reducing the amount of offset required.
Reclamation of coastal wetlands decreases soil organic matter (SOM) and changes its composition; however, it remains unclear how reclamation affects microbial necromass and its contribution to SOM.