Ecological response on the shrink of Ebinur Lake, Xinjiang

详细信息   

• 责任者：Liu Yuelan（Department of Geography ; Normal Collage ; Shihezi University ; Shihezi ; 830023 ; China）
• 刊名：Resources Survey & Environment
• 出版年：2008
• 卷期：29(2)
• 关键词：环境退化 ; environmental degradation ; 生境 ; habitat ; 新疆 ; Xinjiang
• 页码：p.126-130
• 图表：1 illus., 3 tables, 8 refs.
• 分类号：1400
• issnNo：ISSN1671-4814
• isbnNo：CN32-1640/N

摘要

This paper makes a preliminary analysis on the ecological response caused by the shrinkage of Ebinur Lake. It is pointed out that the natural vegetation in the lakeside desert shows a degradating and declining trend, facing a serious threat of biological diversity. The dry lakebed changes into saltdesert, the lakeside sand dunes activate, the desert expands, the floating dust weather increases for a hundredfold, the buffer space between oasis and desert gradually decreases and the salinization trend increases. The shrinkage of Ebinur Lake is the result of both natural factors and man-made factors, but the man-made factors are primary, among which huge damming rivers and water diversion and large-scale reclaiming wastelands at the upper reaches of the rivers are the most important reasons of the shrinkage of the Lake.