mudflats

n.

（涨潮时被海水淹没的）海边淤泥地，潮泥滩；

1. The mudflats offer a winter home to thousands of migrating swans.
   泥滩成为成千上万只迁徙的天鹅越冬的场所。
2. The ranching of the mudflats has left little for them to eat, or created too much commotion.
   这片泥滩留给它们可吃的东西已经很少了，反到会引发很多骚乱。

Food webs supporting fish over subtropical mudflats are based on transported organic matter not in situ microalgae
Bacterial community dynamics and hydrocarbon degradation during a field-scale evaluation of bioremediation on a mudflat beach contam...
In situ versus laboratory analysis of sediment stability from intertidal mudflats
Predation by Shorebirds, Fish, and Crabs on Invertebrates in Intertidal Mudflats: An Experimental Test
Variations in sediment properties, Skeffling mudflat, Humber Estuary, UK
Tidal, Residual, Intertidal Mudflat (TRIM) Model and its Applications to San Francisco Bay, California
Carbon and nitrogen cycling on intertidal mudflats of a temperate Australian estuary. IV. Inverse model analysis and synthesis.
The effect of geomorphological structures on potential biostabilisation by microphytobenthos on intertidal mudflats
Sediment transport over an intertidal mudflat: field investigations and estimation of fluxes within the “Baie de Marenngres-Oleron...
Interplay between biology and sedimentology in a mudflat (Biezelingse Ham, Westerschelde, The Netherlands)