Temporal-Spatial Changes of the Oasis in the Heihe River Basin over the Past 25 Years
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چکیده
In China, the arid area occupies a quarter of the total area of the land. It mainly distributes in five provinces: Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia. In the arid area, oasis is the special landscape on the background of deserts. It is not only the most centralized area of human activities but also the largest area where human disturbances happen at the regional scale. Oasis covers only 4%–5% of the area of the arid region, whereas they load over 90% of the population and 95% of the social wealth in this area (Li et al., 2007). Therefore, oasis plays very important roles in the economic and social development. In recent 60 years, the artificial oasis of this region kept expanding, as a result, living space of human beings became larger, and the overall productivity and capability were improved as well, which made great contribution to the development of regional economy. However, the ecological environment of the arid area is fragile due to the dry climate, scarce rainfall and short water resource. Consequently, over exploitation on oasis led to imbalanced and unreasonable reallocation of water resource, which further make the local water cycle process changed and finally results in salinization, desertification and wind erosion in other parts (Wang, 2009). If no effective measures are taken, stability of the oasis and sustainable development of the economy in arid area of China will face serious threats.
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