The Ili River originates in the mountains of Xinjiang, China, and flows across an increasingly
arid landscape before terminating in Kazakhstan's Lake Balkhash, which has no outlet to the …

Central Asia's Ili River is fed by mountain streams that flow down into an isolated and arid
basin that today is shared by Kazakhstan and China. Agriculture in the basin is dependent …

The water level in Balkhash Lake is an important indicator for basin-wide ecosystem
conditions, which is affected by many factors. The Ili River is a typical trans-boundary river …

Climate change (CC) and land-use change (LUC) have far-reaching influences on
ecosystem services (ESs), which are key to human well-being. This study aimed to develop …

Central Asia, which is one of the most complex regions in the world, is crisscrossed with
transboundary rivers shared by several countries. This paper analyzes the effects of climate …

Climate variability influences both water quantity and quality in lakes and rivers, eg, shifts in
salinity caused by changes in the evaporation/precipitation ratio. However, knowledge about …

Release and transport of contaminants in watersheds can have adverse effects on aquatic
organisms and human health. Little attention, however, has been paid to chemical …

The water availability in Kazakhstan is 37000 m 3 per one km 2 and 3650 m 3 per capita a
year, an amount that is lower than the world average (around 6000 m 3)(Knoema, 2016). It is …

The widespread aeolian deposits of the Central Asian steppes and piedmonts offer potential
to better understand the dynamics of the major Eurasian climate subsystems over …

As a key service for regulating ecosystems, soil conservation (SC) plays a critical role in
preventing regional land degradation. However, there are few studies on SC services in …