Dikes have been built in the littoral zones of many lakes in China, for the purpose of flood prevention. Lake Taihu is one of these lakes and its dikes occupy as much as about 73% of the length of the total lake bank. Therefore, a case study of Lake Taihu was conducted. Being different from the natural littoral zone, the littoral zone with dikes has unique properties because dikes block the natural material flow between the surrounding land area and the lake water, consequentially, the material exchange between them was reduced to a great extent. Dike鄄building has brought a lot of ecological and environmental problems, such as the reduction of littoral wetland area, the decrease of aquatic animals忆 habitat, the damage of vegetation cover, and even the destruction of the ecological balance in littoral zones. The deterioration of its ecological health has caused more and more concerns and as a result, many ecological restoration measures have been adopted by local governments. However, not all of them had effect because the driving forces leading to
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