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 …

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 …

One of effective ways to maintain and expand the protected area of wetlands is the
development and construction of wetland parks. As urbanization increases, deep insight on …

Central Asia's arid lowland ecosystems are dependent on water that originates in nearby
mountains and is carried by rivers to terminal lakes and freshwater seas with no outlets to …

Central Asia is located in the hinterland of Eurasia, comprising Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,
Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan; over 93.00% of the total area is dryland …

The Ili River is a transboundary river shared by China, upstream, and Kazakhstan,
downstream. The Ili is the main water supplier to Lake Balkhash, the largest lake in Central …

Abstract The Ili-Balkhash Basin in Central Asia is an arid endorheic basin shared by China
and Kazakhstan. Population growth, socio-economic development, ecological conservation …

Natural changes and human disturbance have far-reaching influences on ecosystem
services (ESs) in arid alpine basins. In this paper, the Issyk-Kul Basin (IKB) is taken as a …

It is necessary to quantitatively study the relationship between climate and human factors on
net primary productivity (NPP) inorder to understand the driving mechanism of NPP and …

The thinly populated Balkhash District of Kazakhstan's Almaty Region lies in the lower
reaches of the Ili-Balkhash basin, which is shared by China and Kazakhstan. The district is …