燕儿沟流域水保治理措施优化配置示范研究

作为综合治理试验示范区 ,燕儿沟流域在水土保持技术措施配置中 ,坚持以土地利用结构调整为中心的综合治理方略 ,贯彻强化基本农田建设、退耕还林 (草 )的指导思想 ,强调降雨就近拦蓄 ,合理利用土地 ,减少水土流失 ,取得最大效益。同时 ,在配置实施过程中兼顾退耕与基本农田建设同步 ,发展粮食与水土保持同步的主导思想 ,探索生态环境建设的合理模式 ,并取得了可喜成效

人工油松林系统水土保持功能的叠加效应

用理论分析和典型观测的方法研究了人工油松林系统水土保持功能的叠加效应。结果表明 :与荒坡灌草小流域相比 ,人工油松林系统减小净雨作用明显 ;对两次次降水而言 ,人工油松林系统对径流时间的滞后效应各为荒坡灌草的 2 .5倍和 4 .3倍 ;对径流动能的减小效应分别为 2 5 .0倍和 166.4倍 ;对挟沙能力的减小效应分别为 2 4 .4倍和 163 .3倍。人工油松林系统能改良土壤 ,使其抗冲、抗蚀性能提高 ,此种双向作用使人工油松林发挥了良好的水土保持作用。

植被保持水土的基本规律和总结

在多年研究工作的基础上 ,全面阐述了植被保持水土的基本特征和规律 ,并对其进行了系统研究总结 ,为客观分析和评价植被的作用和效果 ,以及正确制定和实施水土保持方针和政策提供了科学依据。

大尺度流域不同地貌类型区水土保持减水效益分析

趋势分析结果显示 ,河源涧区、风沙区、丘陵区各代表流域年径流量均在 1970年前后发生一致性改变 ,即从 1970年以来开始有明显的减少趋势 ,平均减流幅度 (与 195 9～ 196 9年径流相比 )以河源涧区 (大理河 )和丘陵区 (小理河 )最大 ,分别为 36 .33%和 36 .2 1% ,风沙区 (海流兔河 )最小 (2 0 .6 1% )。减流幅度的大小是各类型区下垫面状况、水土保持措施和治理程度、降雨量变化等多种因素综合作用的结果。借助适合于黄土高原降雨 -产流特性的月水量平衡改进模型 ,计算天然状态下降雨应有的产流量与同期实测径流量求得减水效果。结果表明 ,3个地貌类型区 70年代的减水效益没有明显差异 ,而在 80年代减水效果差异显著 ,丘陵区 (小理河 ,2 4.99% ) >风沙区 (海流兔河 ,17.2 8% ) >河源涧区 (大理河 ,13.13% )。上述结论为定量评价黄土高原生态环境建设对黄河水资源及水环境演变的影响提供了数据基础。

新疆水土保持与可持续发展研究

新疆维吾尔族自治区作为我国最大及地理位置重要的西北边陲省份 ,随着人口的增长和区域开发进程的进一步加快 ,水土流失问题日趋严重 ,水土保持和可持续发展已成为其生态环境建设的重要课题。分析了新疆水土流失的现状、特点和成因以及存在的问题 ,从可持续发展角度提出了新疆水土保持的对策和建议

基于GIS的小流域坡耕地调查方法探讨

坡耕地研究是水土流失治理及水土保持规划的核心内容 ,GIS的发展及其在多领域的成功应用为坡耕地研究提供了新的技术手段。用矢量基础图件叠加来获取单元图斑的方法是GIS的基本功能 ,但叠加多边形的不确定性成为影响GIS数据质量的灾难性因素。以MapGIS作为基础平台 ,以DOM作为控制底图更新信息 ,采取矢栅叠加的方法获得单元图斑 ,用操作属性表获取专题属性 ,进行小流域坡耕地快速调查的研究 ,展示了矢栅叠加方法在信息复合过程中的显著优势。

流域尺度不同水保措施减水效益分割

在实测资料的基础 ,借助流域网格划分的模型计算方法 ,首次在流域尺度内将水土保持工程措施和生物农业措施在减少地表径流中的作用分割开来 ,从而为定量评价黄土高原以林草植被建设为主的生态环境治理对黄河流域水资源的影响提供数据基础。计算结果显示 ,在“六五”基础上王东沟小流域以梯田建设、土地平整、沟坡道路防蚀技术为主的水土保持工程措施平均减少地表径流 18.1% ,而在“七五”基础上以人工林草植被建设为主的生物措施和调整土地利用结构、扩大经济林果种植面积的农业措施共减少地表径流 10 .9%。这一结论说明为最大限度地减少黄土高原生态环境建设对黄河水资源的影响 ,其治理应以生态、农业措施为主。

黄土高原森林植被水土保持机理研究

土壤侵蚀是造成环境退化的一个主要因素。长期以来因不合理的利用自然资源 ,日积月累的结果使得植被生存的环境受到极大的破坏 ,导致植被衰退 ,引发了严重的水土流失 ;水土流失的不断加剧 ,破坏了土地的生产力 ,土壤肥力降低 ,土壤蓄水能力减弱 ,植被生存的环境进一步恶化 ,如此以往使生态环境陷入恶性循环状态。黄土高原严重的水土流失与该区植被覆被率低有密切的关系。据“七五”统计 ,主要水土流失区现有森林面积约 2 5× 1 0 6ｈｍ2 ,其中人工林占 40 %左右 ,有林地森林覆盖率仅为 9 3% ,而且能发挥水土保持功能的森林覆被率仅为 7 0 % ,这些覆被率高的地区 ,地处六盘山、乔山、黄龙山等地 ,该区域人口密度较低 ,人为活动轻微 ,水土流失小 ;在黄土高原水土流失严重的地区 ,森林覆被率更低 ,仅 5 9% ,即使发挥水土保持功能 ,在宏观范围内仍然难以体现出保持水土的效益 (中共陕西省委研究室等 ,1 999;吴钦孝等 ,1 998)。森林植被有强大的水土保持功能 ,体现在下列几个方面 :植被冠层及地被物的截留作用 ,使大气降水的损失量较大 ,减小了产生径流的净雨量 ;地被物层对汇流的延长作用 ...

黄土高原水土保持措施对侵蚀土壤发育的效应

水土保持工程及植被措施实施,对土壤形成条件、土壤特征及土壤发育产生一定影响,而侵蚀土壤发育程度是评价土壤质量变化及其生态环境效应的重要基础。研究黄土高原水土保持措施对侵蚀土壤理化性质、发育和功能的影响,可为水土保持综合治理,改善黄土高原生态环境提供依据。评述长期定位试验的方法及以空间代替时间的原理,研究了在实施不同水土保持措施后,土壤基本理化性状的变化特征。结果表明:随着措施实施年限的增加,土壤的水分环境和土壤有机碳含量发生了明显改善,对土壤结构和功能产生了影响。证明水土保持措施对侵蚀土壤的发育有一定促进作用。

Impacts of socio-economic factors on sediment yield in the Upper Yangtze River

In recent years, the role of human activities in changing sediment yield has become more apparent for the construction of hydraulic engineering and water conservation projections in the Upper Yangtze River, but it has not been evaluated at the macro scale. Taking Sichuan Province and Chongqing City as an example, this paper studies the relationship between socio-economic factors and sediment yield in the Upper Yangtze River based on section data in 1989 and 2007. The results show that sediment yield is significantly correlated with population density and cultivated area, in which the former appears to be more closely related to sediment yield. Moreover, in the relation of sediment yield vs. population density, a critical value of population density exists, below which the sediment yield increases with the increase of population density and over which the sediment yield increases with the decrease of population density. The phenomenon essentially reflects the influence of natural factors, such as topography, precipitation and soil property, and some human activities on sediment yield. The region with a higher population density than critical value is located in the east of the study area and is characterized by plains, hills and low mountains, whereas the opposite is located in the west and characterized by middle and high mountains. In the eastern region, more people live on the lands with a low slope where regional soil erosion is slight; therefore, sediment yield is negatively related with population density. In contrast, in the western region, the population tends to aggregate in the areas with abundant soil and water resources which usually lead to a higher intensity of natural erosion, and in turn, high-intensity agricultural practices in these areas may further strengthen local soil erosion. It is also found that population tends to move from the areas with bad environment and high sediment yield to the areas with more comfortable environment and less sediment yield. The natural factors have greater influence on sediment yield of western region than that of eastern region. Generally, the natural factors play a dominant role on sediment yield in the Upper Yangtze River.

Impacts of water conservancy and soil conservation measures on annual runoff in the Chaohe River Basin during 1961-2005

National Key Technology RD Program [2006BAD03A02]

A Multimoment Finite-Volume Shallow-Water Model On The Yin-Yang Overset Spherical Grid

A numerical model for shallow-water equations has been built and tested on the Yin-Yang overset spherical grid. A high-order multimoment finite-volume method is used for the spatial discretization in which two kinds of so-called moments of the physical field [i.e., the volume integrated average ( VIA) and the point value (PV)] are treated as the model variables and updated separately in time. In the present model, the PV is computed by the semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian formulation, whereas the VIA is predicted in time via a flux-based finite-volume method and is numerically conserved on each component grid. The concept of including an extra moment (i.e., the volume-integrated value) to enforce the numerical conservativeness provides a general methodology and applies to the existing semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian formulations. Based on both VIA and PV, the high-order interpolation reconstruction can only be done over a single grid cell, which then minimizes the overlapping zone between the Yin and Yang components and effectively reduces the numerical errors introduced in the interpolation required to communicate the data between the two components. The present model completely gets around the singularity and grid convergence in the polar regions of the conventional longitude-latitude grid. Being an issue demanding further investigation, the high-order interpolation across the overlapping region of the Yin-Yang grid in the current model does not rigorously guarantee the numerical conservativeness. Nevertheless, these numerical tests show that the global conservation error in the present model is negligibly small. The model has competitive accuracy and efficiency.

Shallow Water Model On Cubed-Sphere By Multi-Moment Finite Volume Method

A global numerical model for shallow water flows on the cubed-sphere grid is proposed in this paper. The model is constructed by using the constrained interpolation profile/multi-moment finite volume method (CIP/MM FVM). Two kinds of moments, i.e. the point value (PV) and the volume-integrated average (VIA) are defined and independently updated in the present model by different numerical formulations. The Lax-Friedrichs upwind splitting is used to update the PV moment in terms of a derivative Riemann problem, and a finite volume formulation derived by integrating the governing equations over each mesh element is used to predict the VIA moment. The cubed-sphere grid is applied to get around the polar singularity and to obtain uniform grid spacing for a spherical geometry. Highly localized reconstruction in CIP/MM FVM is well suited for the cubed-sphere grid, especially in dealing with the discontinuity in the coordinates between different patches. The mass conservation is completely achieved over the whole globe. The numerical model has been verified by Williamson's standard test set for shallow water equation model on sphere. The results reveal that the present model is competitive to most existing ones. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Population status, threats and conservation of the Yangtze finless porpoise

The Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis) is currently limited to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River from Yichang to Shanghai, China, and the adjoining Poyang and Dongting Lakes. Its population size has decreased remarkably during the last several decades due to the heavy impact of human activities, including overfishing of prey species, water development projects that cause attendant habitat loss and degradation, water pollution, and accidental deaths caused by harmful fishing gear and collisions with motorized vessels. It was estimated that the number of remaining individuals was down to approximately 1800 in 2006, a number that is decreasing at a rate as high as 5% per year. Three conservation measures - in situ and ex situ conservation and captive breeding have been applied to the protection of this unique porpoise since the early 1990s. Seven natural and two "semi-natural" reserves have so far been established. Since 1996, a small group of finless porpoises has been successfully reared in a facility at the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; three babies were born in captivity on July 5, 2005, June 2, 2007 and July 5, 2008. These are the first freshwater cetaceans ever born in captivity in the world. Several groups of these porpoises caught in the main stream of the Yangtze River, or rescued, have been introduced into the Tian'e-Zhou Semi-natural Reserve since 1990. These efforts have proven that, not only can these animals survive in the area, they are also to reproduce naturally and successfully. More than 30 calves had been born in the reserve since then, with one to three born each year. Taking deaths and transfers into account, there were approximately 30 individuals living in the reserve as of the end of 2007. Among eight mature females captured in April 2008, five were confirmed pregnant. This effort represents the first successful attempt at off-site protection of a cetacean species in the world, and establishes a solid base for conservation of the Yangtze finless porpoise. A lesson must be drawn from the tragedy of Chinese River Dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), which has already been declared likely extinct. Strong, effective and appropriate protective measures must be carried out quickly to prevent the Yangtze finless porpoise from becoming a second Chinese River Dolphin, and save the biodiversity of the Yangtze River as a whole.