Abstract: With the rapid socioeconomic development and urbanization,reclamation of mudflat resources has become an important way to ease the contradiction between land supply and demand.Irrational exploitation of limited mudflat resources has seriously affected natural evolution of many estuarine and coastal areas,weakened the regeneration of these resources,and threatened flood control,water security,and consequently the sustainable socioeconomic development in estuarine and coastal areas.Mudflat resources and their...