Such engineering structures together with embankments may protect downstream areas from flooding, can give short-term benefits but may degrade the natural or pristine condition of a river by altering the longitudinal and lateral connectivity of water and sediments. This study analyses the human-induced...
The primary causes of the changes in water discharge in the Changjiang basin were basin-wide dam construction and water consumption. Therefore, a regulated index (RI) is proposed to quantify human activities in the river basin. Based on RI, the Changjiang basin was weakly regulated between 1950...
Here, we provide a holistic review of water and sediment transport and examine the human impacts on the flux, concentration and size of sediment in the Yangtze River in recent decades. We find that most of the fluvial sediment has been trapped in reservoirs, except for the finest portion. ...
phase.In comparison with previous studies,the result reveals the impact of human activities on the riverbed evolution in Yalu River estuary during recent 100 years.The influence of water conservancy projects was mainly in the early period,which led to a great change in riverbed landform.The ...
Fenhe valley located in the region of soil erosion in the middle Yellow River, water resources is always very short. Especially in recent decades, plentiful human activities affected the change of runoff. The negative function brought by... X Dong,X Meng,L Li,... - 国际水土保持大会 被引...
The impact of human activities on river systems has reached a state in which they can no longer be considered to be controlled only by natural processes of the Earth but also by anthropogenic forces in many regions of world. However, most approaches for assessing the impact still consider human...
With economic development and population growth, the flow regime of the Yellow River, particularly the lower reach of Yellow River having exceptionally high sediment-load flood threats, has been significantly altered by...
Clearly, the image that the concept "wine" brings to mind for a modern human is a far cry from what it would have been for most humans throughout history. When zooming out with the lens of history, we can see that traditions many wineries model themselves on today may only be a centu...
Lakes play a major role in global hydrological and biogeochemical cycles1,2,3,4and underpin vital ecosystem functions and services5,6. However, rapid lake changes have been identified worldwide in response to changing climate and escalating human activities7,8,9,10, threatening the ecosystem servic...
The causal research design method is most effective in establishing the cause-and effect associations especially when carrying out findings concerning specific variations on water resources availability and development in relation to several other River Basin operating factors such as human activities, climat...