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JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (6): 1085-1092.DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2016.00082

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Horizontal Sand Transportation Flux in the Desert-OasisEcotone in Cele, Xinjiang

Mao Donglei1,2, Cai Fuyan3, Hou Jiannan1,4, Lei Jiaqiang2, Yang Xuefeng1, Xue Jie2   

  1. 1. College of Geography Science and Tourism/Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Lake Environment and Resources in Arid Zone, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi 830054, China;
    2. Cele National Station of Observation and Research for Desert-Grassland Ecosystem in Xinjiang, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China;
    3. College of Application Engineering, Urumqi Vocational University, Urumqi 830002, China;
    4. College of Urban and Environmental Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
  • Received:2016-05-17 Revised:2016-06-17 Online:2017-11-20 Published:2017-11-20

Abstract: The natural vegetation in the oasis-desert ecotone in Cele has good role in the protection of the farmland in the oasis. In order to analyze the protection effect of different landscape types, the sand transportation flux in horizontal direction in shifting sandy land, semi-fixed sandy land and fixed sandy land in desert-oasis ecotone in Cele is analyzed. The results showed that the sand transportation flux near ground surface and average wind speed reduced significantly from shifting sandy land to semi-fixed and fixed sandy lands. At 0-202.5 cm height, the sand transportation flux in semi-fixed and fixed sandy land were less than in shifting sandy land by 56.91% and 90.23%. At 0-70 cm height, the sand transportation flux in semi-fixed and fixed sandy land were less than in shifting sandy land by 85.31% and 99.55%. When the average wind speed is greater, the sand transportation flux in semi-fixed and fixed sandy lands would reduce more compared with that in shifting sandy land. The exponential, linear and polynomial functional relationships were found between sand transportation flux near ground surface and average wind speed in shifting sandy land, semi-fixed sandy land and fixed sandy land, respectively. In order to protect oasis against wind and sand disasters, the effective width of desert-oasis ecotone should not be less than 1.74 km in Cele.

Key words: desert-oasis ecotone, horizontal sand transportation flux, average wind speed, width, Cele

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