Nest Site Selection by Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) and Implications for Conservation on Qilianyu, Xisha Islands, South China Sea by Ting Zhang, Xiaoyu An, Chenglong Zhang, Yunteng Liu, Yupei Li, Yangfei Yu, Jichao Wang, Liu Lin, Hai‐Tao Shi

“…Therefore, green sea turtles on the Xisha Islands exhibit preferences for microhabitat ecological factors during nesting site selection, and the ecological characteristics of nesting grounds can affect the hatching success rate of green sea turtles. …”
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Evaluation of Service Life of Polystyrene in Tropical Marine Environment by Principal Component Analysis by Dongdong Song, Jin Gao, Lin Lu, Xiaogang Li

“…In this study, PS specimens were exposed to the tropical environment on Xisha Islands in China for two years. Chromatic aberration, gloss, tensile strength, elongation at break, flexural strength, and impact strength were tested to evaluate the aging behavior of PS. …”
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Multimodel Combination Bathymetry Inversion Approach Based on Geomorphic Segmentation in Coral Reef Habitats Using ICESat-2 and Multispectral Satellite Images by Xiuling Zuo, Juncan Teng, Fenzhen Su, Zhengxian Duan, Kefu Yu

“…Taking 11 coral reefs of Xisha Islands (ocean area of 607 km²) in the South China Sea as the study area, a parametric multimodel combination approach based on geomorphic segmentation (PMCGS) for obtaining bathymetry was constructed by combining the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) data with Gaofen-1 (GF-1) medium- and Worldview-2/3 (WV-2/3) high-resolution multispectral images. …”
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Assessment of atmospheric correction methods in MSI imagery for deriving bathymetry and substrates of shallow-water coral reefs by Wei Huang, Wei Huang, Wei Huang, Wei Huang, Jun Zhao, Mingjie Li, Mingjie Li, Mingjie Li, Quansheng Lou, Quansheng Lou, Nanyang Yan, Nanyang Yan, Nanyang Yan, Shaojie Sun

“…In this study, three commonly used AC processors—Dark Spectrum Fitting (DSF), Case 2 Regional Coast Color processor (C2RCC), and Polymer—were applied to evaluate their performance on Sentinel-2 MSI imagery of coral reef areas in the Xisha Islands, South China Sea. Since the latter two processors incorporate a sunglint removal approach, additional procedures were applied to DSF. …”
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Spatial-temporal distribution of phytoplankton HAB species and contamination status of oyster toxins under intensive oyster farming in Jiangmen coasts, the South China Sea by Jian Zou, Yayuan Xiao, Jiaqi Su, Yang Liu, Peng Wu, Teng Wang, Lin Lin, Chunhou Li, Yu Liu, Yong Liu

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