Evaluation of uneven water resource and relation between anthropogenic water withdrawal and ecosystem degradation in Changjiang and Yellow River basins

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 3350-3362

  Nakayama, Tadanobu ^a   Shankman, David ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop yield; Eco hydrology model; Extremes; TINDVI; Water withdrawal

Indexed keywords

CROP YIELD; ECO-HYDROLOGY; EXTREMES; TINDVI; WATER WITHDRAWAL;

CATCHMENTS; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOODS; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; IRRIGATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

WATER RESOURCES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CROP YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EXTREME EVENT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; WATER BUDGET; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; HAI RIVER; HUBEI; THREE GORGES DAM; YANGTZE BASIN; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

EID: 84885390156     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9835     Document Type: Article

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