Water Quantity and Quality of Six Lakes in the Arid Xinjiang Region, NW China

Environmental Processes

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 115-125

  Wu, Jinglu ^a   Liu, Wen ^a   Zeng, Haiao ^a   Ma, Long ^b   Bai, Ruidong ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Human activities; Lake variations; Xinjiang arid region

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF; SALINE WATER; SILICON COMPOUNDS; WATER QUALITY;

HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; REGIONAL RESOURCES; WATER QUANTITIES; XINJIANG; XINJIANG REGIONS;

LAKES;

ARID REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROCHEMISTRY; LAKE WATER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; EBINUR LAKE; KANAS LAKE; WULUNGU LAKE; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84921510333     PISSN: 21987491     EISSN: 21987505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40710-014-0007-9     Document Type: Article

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