Significance of Eco-hydrological Threshold in Artificial Vegetation Ecosystem Management in China Desert Area

doi:10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2016.00163

JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (4): 678-688.DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2016.00163

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Significance of Eco-hydrological Threshold in Artificial Vegetation Ecosystem Management in China Desert Area

Zhang Dinghai^1,2, Li Xinrong², Zhang Peng²

1. Center for Quantitative Biology, College of Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou 730070, China;
2. Shapotou Desert Research and Experimental Station, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

Received:2016-09-30 Revised:2016-12-05 Online:2017-07-20 Published:2017-07-20

Abstract

Abstract: The desert area in northern China,under wind-blown sand hazards and with desertification development and ecological degradation,is one of the most serious areas in the word.Using plant sand-fixation is the main approach to contain the expansion of sandy land and to recover and rebuild the ecological environment.However,the stability maintenance of artificial vegetation is a challenge of sustainable management of sand hazards.As the basis for artificial vegetation ecosystem management,how to understand and define the eco-hydrological threshold has important theoretical and practical significance.We built an eco-hydrological model to describe the interaction effect between the deep soil moisture and the coverage of artificial sand-binding shrub or trees (for only eastern desert regions).We used the model to simulate the eco-hydrological process in the typically artificial sand-binding vegetation ecosystem of different climate zones of China desert.Based on these results,we defined the appropriate eco-hydrological threshold of artificial vegetation ecosystem management in different sandy areas.It has a certain reference value to the ecosystem management of existing sand-binding vegetation and future vegetation construction in desert areas.

Key words: desert area in northern China, artificial sand-binding vegetation, soil water balance, stability of sand-binding vegetation, eco-hydrological threshold, ecological reconstruction

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Zhang Dinghai, Li Xinrong, Zhang Peng. Significance of Eco-hydrological Threshold in Artificial Vegetation Ecosystem Management in China Desert Area[J]. JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH, 2017, 37(4): 678-688.

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