Title :
Ejina Desert Oasis: A Fragile "Ecological Screen" in Inland Region of Northwest China
Author :
Si Jianhua ; Feng Qi ; Xi Haiyang ; Chang Zongqiang ; Su Yonghong
Author_Institution :
Alashan Desert Eco-Hydrol. Exp. Res. Station, CAS, Lanzhou
Abstract :
The deterioration of global eco-environment is seriously threatening human development, this is particularly true for most arid and semiarid zones in the world due to dry climate, meagre water resource, fragile ecosystem and prominent contradiction between the environment and development. How can we conduct eco-environmental construction is a difficult problem confronting people in these regions. This paper, taking northwest China´s dry land miniature - Ejina desert oasis at the terminus of the Heihe River as an example and starting with the region´s eco-environmental evolution, elucidates the cause of arid eco-environmental deterioration - interacted result of natural and human factors, analyze the restorability of eco-environment, discusses the problems in the eco-environmental construction in arid regions, and revealed results have a common reference value to the study of environmental evolution and eco-environmental construction in arid regions under the combined actions of natural and human factors.
Keywords :
ecology; environmental factors; sustainable development; water resources; Ejina desert oasis; arid ecoenvironmental deterioration; ecological screen; northwest China; water resource; Content addressable storage; Earth; Ecosystems; Government; Human factors; Lakes; Rivers; Storms; Water resources; Water storage;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2008. ICBBE 2008. The 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1747-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1748-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2008.337