Essentials of endorheic basins and lakes: A review in the context of current and future water resource management and mitigation activities in Central Asia

V Yapiyev, Z Sagintayev, VJ Inglezakis… - Water, 2017 - mdpi.com
Endorheic basins (ie, land-locked drainage networks) and their lakes can be highly sensitive
to variations in climate and adverse anthropogenic activities, such as overexploitation of …

Social benefits of river restoration from ecosystem services perspective: A systematic review

SM Basak, MS Hossain, J Tusznio… - … Science & Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Major global initiatives such as the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) have overlooked the prospects of the river ecosystem in achieving SDGs (eg, SDGs …

Spatiotemporal characteristics in ecosystem service value and its interaction with human activities in Xinjiang, China

Z Zhang, F Xia, D Yang, J Huo, G Wang, H Chen - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
Human activities are becoming increasingly diverse and disordered, especially in arid
areas, which affect ecosystem services more obviously. Conversely, ecosystem services …

Analysis of energy carbon emissions from agroecosystems in Tarim River Basin, China: A pathway to achieve carbon neutrality

Y Zhou, S Zou, W Duan, Y Chen, K Takara, Y Di - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Accounting for energy carbon emissions and analyzing the driving factors from a watershed
perspective is necessary and helpful for achieving emission reduction targets in arid …

Assessing ecosystem services for informing land-use decisions: a problem-oriented approach

J Förster, J Barkmann, R Fricke, S Hotes, M Kleyer… - Ecology and …, 2015 - JSTOR
Assessments of ecosystem services (ES), that aim at informing decisions on land
management, are increasing in number around the globe. Despite selected success stories …

Risk assessment of water resource shortages in the Aksu River basin of northwest China under climate change

P Yang, S Zhang, J Xia, Y Chen, Y Zhang, W Cai… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
As most of the runoff resulting from snow-ice melt is related to climate change factors in the
arid region of northwest China, the risk to water resource systems threatens the socio …

[HTML][HTML] Ecosystem services research trends in the water tower of Asia: A bibliometric analysis from the Hindu Kush Himalaya

P Kandel, N Chettri, S Chaudhary, P Sharma… - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
The study presents the first comprehensive overview of ecosystem services (ES) research
from the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), a region often referred to as the 'water tower of Asia' …

Meeting agricultural and environmental water demand in endorheic irrigated river basins: A simulation-optimization approach applied to the Urmia Lake basin in Iran

AH Dehghanipour, G Schoups, B Zahabiyoun… - Agricultural Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Competition for water between agriculture and the environment is a growing problem in
irrigated regions across the globe, especially in endorheic basins with downstream …

Identification of potential impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on streamflow alterations in the Tarim River Basin, China

L Xue, F Yang, C Yang, X Chen, L Zhang, Y Chi… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Understanding contributions of climate change and human activities to changes in
streamflow is important for sustainable management of water resources in an arid area. This …

[图书][B] Grasslands of the world: diversity, management and conservation

VR Squires, J Dengler, L Hua, H Feng - 2018 - books.google.com
This book begins with a brief account of the extraordinary sequence of events that led to
emergence of grasslands as major vegetation formations that now occupy some of the driest …