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Marine biodiversity conservation based on integrated coastal zone management

(ICZM)dA case study in Quanzhou Bay, Fujian, China
Chen Bin, Huang Hao*, Yu Weiwei, Zheng Senlin, Wang Jinkeng, Jiang Jinlong
The Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration Peoples Republic of China, 178 Daxue Road, Xiamen 361005, China

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Marine biodiversity conservation is a common issue in the world. Due to rapid economic development in
coastal area in China, marine biodiversity conservation faces great pressure. In this paper, the idea of the
integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) was applied as a framework in marine biodiversity
conservation. At rst, the relationship between integrated coastal zone management and the marine
biodiversity conservation was discussed. Then, as a case study in Fujian Quanzhou bay, a set of strategies
on marine biodiversity conservation based on ICZM were put forward, which included how to dene
management boundary of marine biodiversity conservation, the impact assessment model of human
activities in the coastal area on marine biodiversity, the planning and management of marine biodiversity conservation, and the monitoring system of the marine biodiversity. Finally, the framework of the
comprehensive decision support system based on GIS was suggested.
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1. Introduction
Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is a continuous
and dynamic process which is utilized to determine policy and
management strategy that solve the contradiction in the utilization of coastal zone resources and limit the impact of human
activity on coastal zone environment [1]. One of the primary aims
of ICZM is to sustainably maintain a high level of biodiversity and
protect vital habitats. In 2002, the World Summit on Sustainable
Development and the Convention of Biodiversity adopted the
target to signicantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by the
year 2010 [2]. Due to the complexity of biodiversity conservation,
the partial and non-systematic methods, which are in simple
consideration of sea excluding basin-wide area, single department
rather than wide participation of stakeholders, were proved ineffective. In this background, both ICZM and establishment of
marine natural reserve are widely acknowledged as most effective
measure for marine biodiversity conservation. Many countries
have considered adopting the ICZM methods to solve the
conversation issue of biodiversity. As the management measure of
marine environment, resources and biodiversity, ICZM is acquiring
increasing success [11].
China is of abundant marine biodiversity, with 22,561 marine
species recorded [7], among which the coastal zone is especially

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of rich biodiversity. However, 40% of population dwells in coastal

zones with only 13% of total nations land area, and the GDP of
coastal zones takes up 60% of the whole, which bring on
unprecedented pressure toward the marine biodiversity conservation in coastal zones [12]. Urbanization and reclamations lead
to a large amount loss of habitat; the development of coastal
agriculture and industry results in marine pollution from basins
and regional areas; overshing causes the sh resources to
decline directly, and decrease of marine biodiversity; invasion of
alien species push out aboriginal species to distinct and sabotage
the genetic diversity [3,13]. Enormous population and drastic
human activity are the main destructive factors of biodiversity,
and biodiversity conservation is to preserve and restore biodiversity through limits and adjustment of human activities.
Therefore, the biodiversity conservation is to coordinate the
unbalanced correlation between human and nature, and the aim
is to retain harmonious and sustainable development between
human and nature [8].
Although marine biodiversity conservation is a primary goal of
ICZM, it is still difcult to nd the equilibrium point between
biodiversity conservation and sustainable utilization of resource,
and the potential of ICZM to maintain and increase biodiversity is
to be discovered. With the economic development in coastal
zones, the conservation of marine biodiversity faces more severe
situation. It is quite urgent and necessary to establish a set of
available techniques and methods based on ICZM in the coastal
zones in China, in view that ICZM is the most effective measure
for marine biodiversity conservation. This paper present the

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Determination of management boundaries of biodiversity conservation

Background survey

Comprehensive impact assessment of human activity in coastal zones on biodiversity

Planning of marine bio-diversity protection based on ICZM
Management system of marine biodiversity conservation

Establishment of monitoring network

for marine biodiversity

Comprehensive decision support system

Fig. 1. Approaches of marine biodiversity conservation based on ICZM.

specic methods and technique of marine biodiversity conservation based on ICZM in Quanzhou Bay in Fujian, which included
the boundary of marine biodiversity conservation, the impact
assessment model of human activities in the coastal area on
marine biodiversity, the planning and management of marine
biodiversity conservation based on ICZM theories, the monitoring
system of the marine biodiversity and comprehensive decision
support system. Detailed logic diagram can be referred in Fig. 1.

2. The study area and the determination of management

boundary of biodiversity conservation
2.1. The study area
The research area Quanzhou Bay (Fig. 2), locates in the southeast
coastal zone of Fujian province, with total bay area of 128 km2,
which is an important bay in Fujian coast. A few rivers ow into this
bay, and Jinjiang River is the largest river system around Quanzhou
Bay, with 5629 km2 basin area. There are estuary wetlands,
mangrove, shallow sea and other ecosystems [4].

The entire inner bay has been designated as Quanzhou Bay

Estuarine Wetland Provincial Nature Reserve, in order to protect
wetland ecosystems and biodiversity. Biodiversity is rich in
Quanzhou Bay. Investigation in 2008 and 2009 shows that there is
a record of 76 species of epibenthos, 228 species of intertidal
macrobenthos, 134 species of zooplankton, 212 species of phytoplankton, 83 species of waterbirds, and 351 species of wetland
plant. There are many species designated as national protection
species, such as Chinese white dolphin and Chinese sturgeon
designated as national rst class protection animals, and 9 species
of cetaceans, 5 species of sea turtles and amphioxus designated as
national second class protection species [6]. According to the
investigation on waterbird by the month in 2008, Quanzhou Bay
supports 71,551 waterbirds, which is far more than the criteria for
Identifying Wetlands of International Importance that it regularly
supports 20,000 or more waterbirds. And moreover, the individuals
of species in danger, such as Baikal Teal, Saunderss Gull, Swinhoes
Egret, Eurasian Curlew, Terek Sandpiper, Kentish Plover, and
Mongolian Plover, were more than or nearly 1% of the individuals in
a population. According to Criteria for Identifying Wetlands of

Fig. 2. Demonstration of study area.

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Table 1
Comparison between coastal management boundaries in Quanzhou Bay.
Coastal management
boundary

Area including
the whole Jin
Basin (km2)

Areas only include

the downstream
to the Jin Dam km2

Inland regions
Coastal regions
Coastal sea
Neritic sea
Total area

5525.65
104.02
64.68
99.21
5793.56

95.38
1.80
1.12
1.71
100.00

1314.37
104.02
64.68
99.21
1582.28

83.07
6.57
4.09
6.27
100.00

International Importance, Quanzhou Bay is the wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention.
The surrounding area of Quanzhou Bay includes Licheng
District, Fengze District, Huian County, Jinjiang County, Shishi
County. This region is one of the most active and fast-growing
regions in China. The environment of coast zone around Quanzhou
bay is seriously threatened by the swift urbanization, large number
of enterprises and factories. Reclamation area has reached
27.5  106 km2, accounting for 38.9% of tidal at area of Quanzhou
Bay; invasion of alien species Spartina alterniora has resulted in
ecological disaster, with the Spartina alterniora area in the bay
reaching to 2.7  106 km2. Marine biodiversity in Quanzhou bay is
in urgent danger.

2.2. Determination of management boundary for biodiversity

conservation
Coastal zone is a denite natural geographical unit with clear
boundary. The area under management includes four regions:
inland regions, which pass their inuence toward sea by rivers;
coastal regions, including marshlands, wetlands and others close to
sea, and human activities in this regions can affect the nearby sea
directly; coastal sea, such as estuaries, atoll lakes, and shallow seas,
and in this regions, activities from land have dominant effects;
neritic sea, which is sea water inside the continental shelf. Active
land-sea interactions in this region make it a vital habitat for many
marine species and it is also a signicant dwelling and activity place
for human [14].
Although ICZM regions can be divided into the four subareas
above theoretically, great obstacles still exist in the management of
such wide area, and the boundaries of ICZM should be adapted to
the local conditions. Especially the inland area, if we consider the
area that affects the coast, the total basin area will be more times
than the coastal area, and the extent will be beyond our management. And that is unrealistic in the coastal management. In this
paper, therefore, we cover the areas downstream to the biggest
dam of the basin. Table 1 shows the area difference between the
coastal management boundaries in the Quanzhou Bay. In Table 1,
the coastal region is the area of coastal line and the coastal extend
to the land about 10 km, it includes marshlands, wetlands and
others close to sea. The study area was shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

Fig. 3. Management boundary for biodiversity conservation in Quanzhou Bay.

activities inuence marine biodiversity, so as to provide scientic

evidence for later planning and management.
3.1. Selection of assessment model
DPSIR (drive-pressure-state-impact-response) mode is selected
in this paper (Fig. 5). DPSIR model is a medium of information ow
and response, which provides regulators with timely information
of coastal zone biodiversity state and the trends, so as to regulate
the behaviour of resource user, and give the best conguration of
resources in coastal zones.
3.2. Assessment indicator
The indicator system primarily aims to report to society and
decision makers the current state and latest trend of coastal zone
management, including sustainable utilization of biodiversity,
social-economical pressure, opportunities and related institutional
problems. The indicator system should be simple and capable of

3. Integrated impact assessment of marine biodiversity

After the boundary was determined, the impact from human
activities on marine biodiversity should be assessed. Integrated
assessment is a process of exchange and participation of multisubjects, which absorbs knowledge from several subjects for better
explanation of complex phenomena [10]. In practice of ICZM,
a comprehensive assessment system is needed to give the decision
makers related information, which combines geographical model
with social-economical model to explains why and how the human

Fig. 4. Administrative regions included in the study area.

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Impact (I)

Impact
Change

Induce
Trigger

Response (R)
Social Response
Economical Response
Environmental Response

Eliminate
Improve

Social
Economic and
Ecological
Impact
Requirment

State (S)
Genetic diversity
Species diversity
Ecosystem
diversity

Eliminate

Eliminate

Drive (D)
Pressure (P)
Habitats loss,
Population
Pollution,
Drivers and
Produce Invasion of alien
Economic
species,
Drivers
Overfishing

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Fig. 5. Impact assessment model of biodiversity based on DPSIR.

communication. Twenty four indexes are selected based on DPSIR

model, specied in Table 2.
3.3. Mechanism of marine biodiversity change
Pressure, state and response are dependent processes in
conservation and management of biodiversity, so the model representing their correlations should be developed. And this kind of
model can be used in data analysis to establish connections of
components in the cycles of eco-system, so as to nd out the drive
mechanism of biodiversity change. Owing to the close relationship
between biodiversity and habitats, pressure and response affect
biodiversity mainly through changes of quality and quantity in
habitat. And one primary goal of ICZM is to sustain high level of
biodiversity and their habitat. Thus the model should analyze the
quantitative and qualitative changes of the habitat under all kinds
of human pressure, and the impact on marine species which rely on
the habitat.
The establishment of the model can be divided into two
processes: (1) It is more and more recognized that the preservation
of biodiversity is only to achieve through the establishment of
mosaic of suitable habitat patches at the landscape scale [9]. Its
necessary to analyze the impact of human activities on different

patches which can be helpful for decision-makers to optimize the

mosaic of habitat patches for protecting biodiversity. Thus, what
should be done rstly is to divide the study area into different
habitat patches by remote-sensing and GIS tools, and put the
quantitative information of indicators listed in Table 2 into every
patch (pollution, reclamation, invasion of alien species, overshing
and so on); (2) Secondly, based on the eld investigation, related
biodiversity information should be put into every habitat patch to
analyze the correlation between marine biodiversity (State) and
human activities (Pressure) . Then, the relationship model of
human activity pressure and biodiversity was developed multivariant analysis and other bio-statistical methods, and the model
can be utilized to analyze the impact of major pressure on marine
biodiversity in Quanzhou Bay. In the meanwhile, some simulation
experiment in the lab is needed for verication.
4. Planning of biodiversity conservation based on ICZM
4.1. General idea of biodiversity conservation planning
According to Chun Thia-Eng, the keys of ICZM are planning and
management of environment, and cooperating relative institutions
for the same objective. The general target of integrated coastal zone

Table 2
Indicator system of biodiversity assessment based on DPSIR in Quanzhou Bay.
First class indicators

Second class indicators

Third class indicators

Unit

Drive indicators

Population
Economical drive

Population density
GDP per capita in coastal zones

Persons/km2
$/capita

Pressure indicators

Habitat destruction

Percentage of natural landscape to articial landscape

Fragmentation index of landscape
Sewage in collection area and total quantity of contaminants
Over standard rate of heavy metal in sea water
Eutrophication index of sea water
Integrated index of sediment quality
Percentage of area dominated by main alien species in habitat
Ratio of alien species to native species
Annual change of shery outputs

Species
Genes

Change rate of bird species in wetlands

Change rate of oral species in tidal at
Change rate plankton species
Change rate of benthos species in tidal at
Quantity and distribution change rate of sensitive Species
genetic diversity Chang rate of remark species

%
%
%
%
%
%

Impact indicators

Social-economic level
Ecological environment

Income growth rate of neighboring dwellers

Numbers of red tides and aqua-cultural disease

%
Times/year

Response indicators

Social response
Economical response

Activity budget for environmental protection education

Ratio of marine environmental investments to GDP
Ratio of scientic research funds to GDP
Ratio of qualied sewage discharge in coastal industries
Coastal zone reserve coverage

10,00 $
%
%
%
%

Pollution

Invasion of alien species

Fishery
State indicators

Ecosystem (Biological communities)

Environmental response

10,000 tons
%

%
%
%

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Making the ecological regionalization

scheme according to planning target
Investigate the current situation
of ecological environment

Analyze the sensitivity of

ecological environment

Evaluate the ecological

service function

Index and basis for Regionalization

Dividing the ecological function zone
Result of regionalization and drawing
of plot
Fig. 6. Regionalization of ecological function.

management is to ensure the optimal and sustainable utilization of

natural resources in coastal zones, to constantly maintain the
biodiversity. Therefore, resource management and biodiversity
conservation, which are the primary motive of integration coastal
zone management and planning, are not incompatible with
economic growth. Because the coastal zones cover land and sea,
management and planning of sea-land integrated is quite important [5]. Based on above principles of coastal zone management, the
scheme of studying the biodiversity conservation is: Set up the
target of planning/divide the ecological function zones/control
the total load of pollutants into the sea/measures of ecological
protection and ecological construction.
4.2. Set up the targets of planning
According to the result of biodiversity impact assessment, the
target of planning is set up from the perspectives of pressure
reducing and biodiversity conservation capacity building against
the articial pressure on the biodiversity, which cover short-term,
mid-term and long-term targets. Thus, measurable indexes are set
for the demonstration areas, so that, the planning effects can be
checkout in future. The specic planning indexes were pick up and
extended from the response indexes of DPSIR above.
4.3. Divide ecological function zone
Ecological function region is to be divided into different sub
ecological function zones according to the ecosystem factors and
regional features in study area, the sensitivity of ecological environment and spatial distribution law of ecological service function.
In management of biodiversity conservation, the dividing of
ecological function region in mainly to provide the basis for the
control of the total load of pollutants and setting up the target for
sub ecological function zones of biodiversity conservation.
Main contents of regionalization of ecological function zone
include: (1) Investigate and analyze the structure, process and
spatial distribution pattern of the ecosystem; (2)Find out the
problems, reasons and their spatial distribution pattern in
ecosystem; (3)Evaluate the ecological service function of different
kinds of ecosystems and its effect on social and economical
development; (4)Analyze the sensitivity of ecological environment
and highly sensitive ecosystem; (5)Bring forward the regionalization of ecological function, and dene the ecosystem and social and
economical functions of different regions.
For detailed processing of regionalization of ecological function
refer to Fig. 6. And the result for ecological function region in
QuanZhou Bay is shown in Fig. 7.

4.4. Total pollutants load control

Putting forward the plan of total pollutants load control is to
alleviate the effects of pollutants on biodiversity. It is inuenced by
four main inter-related factors, which are economic development,
environment status, marine environment capacity, acceptable goal
of marine environment, and so on.
Fig. 8 is the technical route of planning for the total pollutant load
control of Quanzhou Bay. Firstly, the goal of the marine environment
conservation is set up according to planning of social and economical
development and the regionalization of ecological function of the
Quanzhou Bay. Secondly, the numerical model was established to
calculate the total maximum load capacity of Quanzhou Bay, and
then, the reasonable outlets for waste water discharge were chosen
and the maximum load of each outlet was calculated based on the
hydrodynamic situation and other environment situation of the
Quanzhou Bay. Finally, the countermeasures on the total pollutant
load control of the Quanzhou Bay were formulated.
4.5. Ecological protection and construction
According to the result of ecological function regionalization,
the scheme for sensitive ecosystem conservation and construction,
the key resource exploitation areas management, coastal urban
ecosystem construction, agricultural and suburban environment
protection were put forward.

Fig. 7. Ecological function region in QuanZhou Bay.

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Biochemical degradation rate of

pollutants

Analysis of planning
of the social economy
development

Establishment of numeric
model of water quality and its
calibration and verification

617

Analysis of ecological
function zone

protection goal of sea water

quality

Calculate the total maximum load capacity of Quanzhou Bay

Choose reasonable outlets for waste water discharge and

calculate the maximum load of each outlet

Put forward the countermeasures of total pollutant load control

Fig. 8. Framework of the total pollutant load control of Quanzhou Bay.

5. Management system of biodiversity conservation

5.1. Management framework of biodiversity conservation
Natural division of Coastal zone is usually different from
administrative division. Sometimes, ICZM may concern different
administrative districts or countries. Therefore the cooperation
among different departments and districts are inevitable in actual
operation. To a great extent, the success of management relies on

cooperation among departments, which requires that resource

administrators, environment planners, decision makers and
government ofcers must regard the coast zone as an open and
public area to carry out the coastal zone planning and management
according to coastal natural features.
Using the method of integrated and multi-department in
management and planning is benecial for achieving the target of
optimizing the resource protection and economic development.
Usually these departments are agriculture, forestry, shery, energy,

General requirement for biodiversity conservation

and sustainable development
Relevant functional
department (marine
and fishery bureau,
land bureau, EPA)

Specialist representative,
community resident,
privately owned institution,
public group (NGO)

ICZM committee

Biodiversity analysis based on PSR model

Pressure: pollution,
overfishing, habitat
fragmentation, etc

Status: genetic level,

ecological level, species
level

Response: pollution control,

habitat
restoration
and
rehabilitation, etc

Establish the management plan

Actualize the management plan and
measurements
Monitoring system of ocean biodiversity
conservation
Evaluate the effect of marine biodiversity
conservation management
Fig. 9. Management framework of biodiversity conservation.

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Table 3
Monitoring network of biodiversity conservation in Quanzhou Bay.
Catalog

Items

Contents

Methods

Frequency

Pressure monitoring

Habitat loss

Land use and plant coverage change

and landscape change
Category and distribution of alien
species
Category, concentration, and amount of
pollutants

RS and GIS

1 time/year

Field investigation and RS

1 time/year

Field investigation and

model simulation

Aquaculture and shery

Category, area and distribution of

aquaculture; output and sorts of shery

Field investigation and

statistical data

3 times/year (separately in high

ow, normal and dry ow
period)
1 time/year

Water quality status

Salinity, pH, DO, COD, DIN, DIP, oil,

chlorophylla, heavy metals

Field investigation and

consecutive observation of
ecobuoy

Sediment environmental
chemistry

Oil, organic carbon, sulde, heavy

metal, PAHs, PCBs, and persistent
organic pollutants, etc
Sorts, quantity and distribution of birds
Main sorts and distribution

Field investigation

Alien species invasion

Pollution

Status monitoring

Seabirds
Wetland vegetation
Planktons

Sorts, quantity and distribution of

plankton animals and plants
Sorts, quantity and distribution of large
benthos
Sorts, quantity and distribution of
nektons

Intertidal and neritic

benthos
Nektons
Respond monitoring

Actual performance of
policy and regulation
Ecological restoration

Policy and regulation related to

biodiversity conservation
Fund in ecological restoration

Data Layer

Field investigation
Field investigation remote
sensing
Field investigation
Field investigation
Field investigation

Field investigation, 3 times/year

ecobuoy consecutive
observation in every half-hour
or 4 h
1 time/year

1 time/month
1 time/year
4 times/year (one time in each
season)
2 time/year (one in Spring and
one in Autumn)
2 time/year (one in Spring and
one in Autumn)

Survey

1 time/year

Survey

1 time/year

Primary Data
Data standardizing and formatting

Chemical
Data

Geograph
ic Data

Biological
Data

Meteorology
and
Hydrological
Data

GIS Database Management System

Socio-econ
omic Data

Eco-buoy
Data

Database of research results

Engine of Access, SQL Server, Geodatabase

Function Layer
Impact assessment of alien
Impact assessment of
Impact assessment of
species on biodiversity
overfishing on biodiversity
pollution on biodiversity

Impact assessment of Habitat

loss on biodiversity

Comprehensive impact assessment of Human Activities on Marin Biodiversity

Dividing ecological functional zone

Planing on Biodiversity Conservation

Expression Layer
Visualization and decision support

User Interactivities by LAN

User Interactivities by Internet

Fig. 10. Overall structural diagram of decision support system.

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communication, manufacture, tourism, real estate, military and

public health.
Based on the above consideration, the initial management
system of biodiversity conservation is as shown in Fig. 9.
5.2. Management plan of marine biodiversity conservation
(1) The objectives of management plan
The management plan is to dene the specic target of biodiversity conservation, and nd out the problems that should be
solved primarily in biodiversity conservation and allocation of
resources, which provides the policy guidance of economic development and ecological protection in Quanzhou Bay.
(2) The contents of management plan
1. Set up and rene the short-term and long-term targets of
biodiversity conservation in coastal zone (the target must be
specic, measurable, purposeful, reasonable and with a time
limit)
2. Put forward the solution according to the analysis of
threatening factors, such as carrying out the total pollutants
control, laying out the spatial planning in coastal zone, etc.;
3. Make up the action plan of specic target (relations between
action and target);
4. Time arrangement for realizing the target in a ve-year
stage;
5. List the resources that the action needs (human resource,
property, nance), and ve-year budget;
6. Effect evaluation of action and output and adaptive
management policy.
6. Monitoring network of biodiversity conservation
Establishment of the monitoring network of biodiversity conservation is to check the level of achieving expected goal. The purpose of
creating the monitoring network of biodiversity conservation is to
provide essential information to administrators on biodiversity
conversation. According to PSR model raised by Committee of
Sustainable Development of UN, the following compulsory questions
referring to biodiversity monitoring should be answered:
What are the pressures that the monitoring ecosystems are
confronted? What is the status of these pressures? Which factors
that affect the biodiversity are changing or have changed? Are the
policies effective?
Base on these, the monitoring system of Quanzhou Bays
biodiversity conservation was put forward in Table 3.

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7. Integrated decision support system

To better apply the marine biodiversity conservation management, we could use the latest technology of spatial information
management, such as systematic engineering, multi-objective
decision and 3S technology. Information decision support system
adopts the three-layer structure (as shown in Fig. 10), the data
service layer, function service layer and results expression layer.
The data service layer is foundation, function service layer is the
core and results expression layer is the outward manifestation of
previous two layers.

Acknowledgements
The work described in this paper was supported by the Marine
Public Welfare Project of China entitled Marine Biodiversity
Conservation and Demonstration Based on ICZM (No.20070529)
and the Natural Sciences Foundation of China (40706042).

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