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15.5.1 Waterbody
Water quality and wave is a predominant influence in the health of coastal wetland,
and which opened out in landscape appearance of waterbody would affect aesthetic
value. Waterbody usually locates at foreground of coastal wetland landscape, the
factors of waterbody composition provides environmental information relates to
coherence and legibility of cognitive aspects.
The attribute of waterbody include six factors that is water area, water clarity,
water color, sediment, aquatic plants, and wave size.
The water quality and wave action have effects on dissolved oxygen of seawater.
In water, dissolved oxygen is an essential factor for aquatic life that also disturbs
sediment and causes an increase in suspended solids. Scattering from suspended
particles plays an important role in the water color of coastal wetland.
Water clarity is affected by water quality, high water clarity with high landscape
aesthetic value. Alga, aquatic plants, and suspended particles also are the appearance of water quality, and has a lot of pull with water clarity, water color and the
visible water area, all are main factors that determine human’s aesthetic and preference perception on coastal wetland. Blue water color attracts people closes to water
Table 15.3 Physical landscape attributes and factors of coastal wetlands and how they relate to
landscape aesthetics
Low
Aesthetics
High
#. Attributes/(#) Factors
1. Waterbody
Small
(1) Visible area
Large
Low
(2) Water transparency
High
Yellow-brown
(3) Water color
Blue
Thick
(4) Sediment
Thin
Floating
(5) Aquatic plants
Submerged
Turbulent/larger
(6) Wave action/size
Peaceful/small
2. Water edge
Artificial Sparse to none
(7) Natural shoreline
Natural
(8) Natural vegetation
Plentiful
3. Terrestrial plants
Low
(9) Diversity
High
Low
(10) Richness
High
Low
(11) Evenness
High
Simple
(12) Stratification of
vegetation
Multilayered
4. Overall landscape
Enclosed
(13) Openness
Open
Foreground/near
(14) View distance
Middle ground to background/
distant
High-density
(15) Surrounding land-use Low-density
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15.5.1 Waterbody
Water quality and wave is a predominant influence in the health of coastal wetland,
and which opened out in landscape appearance of waterbody would affect aesthetic
value. Waterbody usually locates at foreground of coastal wetland landscape, the
factors of waterbody composition provides environmental information relates to
coherence and legibility of cognitive aspects.
The attribute of waterbody include six factors that is water area, water clarity,
water color, sediment, aquatic plants, and wave size.
The water quality and wave action have effects on dissolved oxygen of seawater.
In water, dissolved oxygen is an essential factor for aquatic life that also disturbs
sediment and causes an increase in suspended solids. Scattering from suspended
particles plays an important role in the water color of coastal wetland.
Water clarity is affected by water quality, high water clarity with high landscape
aesthetic value. Alga, aquatic plants, and suspended particles also are the appearance of water quality, and has a lot of pull with water clarity, water color and the
visible water area, all are main factors that determine human’s aesthetic and preference perception on coastal wetland. Blue water color attracts people closes to water
Table 15.3 Physical landscape attributes and factors of coastal wetlands and how they relate to
landscape aesthetics
Low
Aesthetics
High
#. Attributes/(#) Factors
1. Waterbody
Small
(1) Visible area
Large
Low
(2) Water transparency
High
Yellow-brown
(3) Water color
Blue
Thick
(4) Sediment
Thin
Floating
(5) Aquatic plants
Submerged
Turbulent/larger
(6) Wave action/size
Peaceful/small
2. Water edge
Artificial Sparse to none
(7) Natural shoreline
Natural
(8) Natural vegetation
Plentiful
3. Terrestrial plants
Low
(9) Diversity
High
Low
(10) Richness
High
Low
(11) Evenness
High
Simple
(12) Stratification of
vegetation
Multilayered
4. Overall landscape
Enclosed
(13) Openness
Open
Foreground/near
(14) View distance
Middle ground to background/
distant
High-density
(15) Surrounding land-use Low-density
L. Lee