[1]QIAO Xue,LI Shuo,CHEN Yichen.Hydrological Effects of Vegetation Restoration in Eroded Environment——A Case Study of Lianshui Basin in Jiangxi Xingguo[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2018,25(05):136-142.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
25
Number of periods:
2018 05
Page number:
136-142
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Public date:
2018-09-06
- Title:
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Hydrological Effects of Vegetation Restoration in Eroded Environment——A Case Study of Lianshui Basin in Jiangxi Xingguo
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QIAO Xue1,2,3, LI Shuo1,2,3, CHEN Yichen1,2,3
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1. Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment, Ministry of Education, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China;
2. State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base of Geographical Environment Evolution, Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210023, China;
3. Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Keywords:
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vegetation restoration; SWAT model; water yield; sediment yield; Lianshui watershed
- CLC:
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P333
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- Abstract:
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The Xingguo county of Jiangxi Province has been the key area of soil and water loss control in China because of the severe vegetation destruction and soil erosion since the 1960s. It was not until 1983 that watershed-based vegetation management and restoration were carried out in Xingguo. A case study on the hydrological effects of vegetation restoration was conducted in the Lianshui watershed, which was one of the severely eroded areas of Xingguo. In this study, the responses of water yield and sediment yield to the land use and land cover change in Lianshui watershed between 1975 and 2015 were analyzed by using the remote-sensing images and hydrologic observations. In addition, SWAT model was applied in Lianshui watershed with three scenarios based on the land use conditions in 1993, 2002 and 2015, respectively. The results showed that during the period from 1975 to 2015, the overall trends of land use change in Lianshui watershed presented the moderate increase in forest area and the significant decrease in cropland and unused land area; the sediment yield of this watershed had reduced due to the vegetation restoration which had greatly improved the soil erosion conditions, though the reduction of annual average runoff was not so remarkable; the maximum monthly water yield and sediment yield significantly reduced from 1978-1983 (pre-reforestation) to 1984-2015 (post-reforestation). According to the three scenarios modeled by SWAT, the rate of change in annual average water yield was not more than 1%, but reforestation had greater impact on the sediment. For example, the annual average sediment yield and the maximum monthly sediment yield in scenario of 2015 decreased by 57.6% and 50%, respectively, compared to those in scenarios of 2002. In conclusion, the case study in Lianshui watershed pointed out that the watershed-based vegetation management and restoration played an important role in soil and water conservation. However, the rapid reduction of sediment yield in 2008 indicated that it took at least 20 years for the vegetation restoration project to really make a difference under intense soil erosion in the watershed.