Dynamics of typical agricultural landscape and its relationship with water resource in Inland Shiyang River watershed, Gansu Province, Northwest China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 123, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 199-217

  Xiao Yu, Li ^a,b   Du Ning, Xiao ^a,b   Xing Yuan, He ^a   Wei, Chen ^a   Dong Mei, Song ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

Cropping pattern; Groundwater; Land use change; Oasis; Runoff; Shiyang River watershed

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LAND USE; RIVERS; WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE; CROPPING PATTERN; OASIS;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF;

GROUND WATER; RUNOFF;

CROPPING PRACTICE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; IRRIGATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; OASIS; RUNOFF; WATER TABLE; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROPPING SYSTEM; DESERT; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; RIVER BASIN; SEMIARID CLIMATE; WASTE WATER; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; LIANGZHU; MINQIN; SHIYANG BASIN; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 33751539239     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9191-z     Document Type: Article

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