A Study on the Streamflow Change and its Relationship with Climate Change and Ecological Restoration Measures in a Sediment Concentrated Region in the Loess Plateau, China

Water Resources Management

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4045-4060

  Liang, Wei ^a,b   Bai, Dan ^a   Jin, Zhao ^b   You, Yuchi ^b   Li, Jiaxing ^b   Yang, Yuting ^c,d  

^a XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecological restoration measures; Flow duration curves; Streamflow trends; Wuding River Basin

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CATCHMENTS; ECOLOGY; ELASTICITY; LANDFORMS; RESTORATION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; STREAM FLOW; WATER RESOURCES; WATERSHEDS;

CATCHMENT CHARACTERISTICS; DECOMPOSITION METHODS; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; FLOW DURATION CURVE; GRAIN FOR GREENS; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RIVER BASINS; STREAMFLOW CHANGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GUIDELINE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STREAMFLOW;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; SHAANXI; WUDINGHE BASIN;

EID: 84938954189     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-015-1044-5     Document Type: Article

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