淤泥质潮滩对于海岸防护、增加土地资源、保持生物多样性等具有重要作用。从淤泥质潮滩演变的主要驱动因子——潮流、波浪、生物作用及地下过程四个方面回顾和总结了潮滩演变动力地貌过程的相关研究进展,提出应关注潮滩短期演变规律、波浪与浮泥作用机理、生物生长与潮滩演变定量关系,以及地下过程作用机理等。
Mudflats play an important role in coast protection,increasing the availability of land resources and keeping biodiversity. An overall study was conducted to review and summarize the contributions of tide,waves,biological effects and subsurface processes to the morphodynamic evolution processes of mudflats. Further interests were proposed including the short-term evolution of tidal flats,interplay mechanisms between wave and fluid mud,quantitative relationship between biological growth and tidal flat evolution,and mechanisms of subsurface process.