[1]ZHANG Ke-xin,LIU Pu-xing,HUO Hua-li,et al.The Spatial Variations of Soil Water Content under the Populus euphratica in Dunhuang Oasis in Hexi Corridor[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2010,17(05):109-113.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
17
Number of periods:
2010 05
Page number:
109-113
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Public date:
2010-10-20
- Title:
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The Spatial Variations of Soil Water Content under the Populus euphratica in Dunhuang Oasis in Hexi Corridor
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ZHANG Ke-xin1, LIU Pu-xing1, HUO Hua-li1, WU San-xiong2
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1. College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China;
2. Administrative Bureau of the West Lake National Nature Reserve in Dunhuang of Gansu, Dunhuang, Gansu 736200, China
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- Keywords:
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Dunhuang Oasis; populous euphratica; soil water content; IDW interpolation; spatial variability
- CLC:
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S715.5
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- Abstract:
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The spatial variability of soil water content is remarkable. Here we used traditional statistics and semivariance analysis of geostatistics to study the spatial variability of the soil water content under the natural populus euphratica forests in the west lake nature reserve of Dunhuang oasis. The results showed that there are about 15-20 cm dry sand layers in most parts of land. That makes the surface soil water content at the lowest level, between 0.8%~4.49%. The soil water content is raised from upper to lower, but not very obvious at different layers. The soil water content changed sharply in 0-60 cm and changed moderately in 60-120 cm. The variation efficient of the soil water content is obviously different in different soil and becomes smaller with the depth increasing. The change is mainly relative to climate, soil texture and tree-age and so on. Using the GIS (Inverse Distance Weighted, IDW) interpolation method analysis, the soil water content of study area exist obvious space differences and strong comparability. Each layer is gradually increased spatial pattern from west to east. It was consisted with the topographical features of the west of the Kumtag desert and the Lop Nor region and the east of Dunhuang oasis.