Influences of climate change and human activities on Tarim River runoffs in China over the past half century

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 231-241

  Zhou, Haiying ^a,b,c   Zhang, Xiaolei ^a   Xu, Hailiang ^a   Ling, Hongbo ^a,b   Yu, Pujia ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Xinjiang Tarim River Basin Management Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Human activities; Runoff; Tarim River

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RUNOFF; CONSERVATION STRATEGIES; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYDROLOGIC DATA; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NEGATIVE INFLUENCE; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT; TARIM RIVER; TARIM RIVER BASIN;

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; METEOROLOGY; RIVERS; RUNOFF;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; TARIM RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84865731274     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1502-1     Document Type: Article

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