Impacts of ecological water conveyance on groundwater dynamics and vegetation recovery in the lower reaches of the Tarim River in northwest China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7605-7616

  Hao, Xingming ^a   Li, Weihong ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Arid region; Groundwater depth; Inland river; NDVI; Vegetative cover

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; REFORESTATION; RIVERS; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION; WATER CONSERVATION;

ECOLOGICAL WATER CONVEYANCES; GROUND WATER DEPTHS; INLAND RIVERS; LOWER REACHES OF THE TARIM RIVERS; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; VEGETATIVE COVER;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

GROUND WATER;

ARID REGION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GROUNDWATER; HERB; NDVI; RIPARIAN ZONE; SOIL MOISTURE; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER DEPTH; WATER STORAGE; WATER TABLE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HERB; HYDROLOGY; METEOROLOGY; PHENOLOGY; PLANT HEIGHT; PRECIPITATION; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; RIVER; RIVER BASIN; SHRUB; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER FLOW; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER SUPPLY;

CHINA; TARIM RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

CHINA; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; RIVERS; TREES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84909990393     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-3952-x     Document Type: Article

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