A quantitative assessment of human impacts on decrease in sediment flux from major Chinese rivers entering the western Pacific Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Chu, Z X ^a   Zhai, S K ^a   Lu, X X ^b   Liu, J P ^c   Xu, J X ^d   Xu, K H ^e  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^e Wall College of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; COASTAL OCEAN; DERIVED MATERIALS; DRAINAGE BASIN; ECOLOGICAL RISKS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN IMPACT; PRIMARY SOURCES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RIVER SEDIMENTS; SAND MINING; SEDIMENT FLUX; SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION; SURFICIAL PROCESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER CONSUMPTION; WATER DISCHARGES; WESTERN PACIFIC; ZHUJIANG;

CATCHMENTS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DRAINAGE BASIN; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MINING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 72049120371     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039513     Document Type: Article

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