Impact of rural depopulation and climate change on vegetation, runoff and sediment load in the Gan River basin, China

Climate change and rural depopulation are changing the ecological and hydrological cycles in China. Data on the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), temperature, precipitation, streamflow, sediment and rural population are available for the Gan River basin from 1981 to 2017. We investigate...

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Main Authors: Lidong Huang, Aizhong Ye, Chongjun Tang, Qingyun Duan, Yahai Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IWA Publishing 2020-08-01
Series:Hydrology Research
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Online Access:http://hr.iwaponline.com/content/51/4/768