Restoring degraded ecosystems in drylands is challenging because of low precipitation and high evapotranspiration. Water availability determines the existence spatiotemporal distribution patterns key endangered species struggling to survive severely damaged desert riparian ecosystem lower Tarim River (LTR) NW China. Ecological water flow restoration measures with costs uncertainties have been implemented since 2000. The task for scientists assess success drawbacks this project propose...

Riverine landscapes are shaped by the feedbacks between hydrological, geomorphological and ecological processes. These occur across multiple scales, from scale of single plants modifying hydraulic forces around it to formation landforms like islands which in turn lead emergence specific river types such as braided or anastomising. Over past years, field biogeomorphology has significantly improved understanding interaction vegetation hydro-morphological Despite recent scientific progress,...

Rivers and their floodplains in drylands provide critical ecosystem services, support biodiversity, serve as hotspots for biomass production. Riverscapes are characterized by biogeomorphic succession trajectories, which depend on periodic flood disturbances. Studying undisturbed free-flowing rivers, increasingly rare globally threatened, enhances our understanding of natural river behavior can inform restoration management regulated systems. Key threats affecting an increasing number rivers...

Under the influences of climate change and human activities, habitat quality (HQ) in inland river basins continues to decline. Studying spatiotemporal distributions land use HQ can provide support for sustainable development strategies ecological environment arid regions. Therefore, this study utilized SD-PLUS model, InVEST-HQ Geodetector assess simulate land-use changes Tarim River Basin (TRB) at multiple scales (county grid scales) scenarios (SSP126, SSP245, SSP585). The results indicated...

Carbon management in forests has become the most important agenda of first half 21st century China context mitigation climate change impact. As main producer inland river basin ecosystem arid region Northwest China, desert riparian forest maintains regional environment and also holds a great significance regulating regional/global carbon cycle. In this study, we estimated total biomass, storage, as well monetary service values Populus euphratica Oliv. lower reaches Tarim River based on...

In fluvial geomorphology as well in freshwater ecology, rivers are commonly seen nested hierarchical systems functioning over a range of spatial and temporal scales. Thus, for comprehensive assessment, information on various scales is required. Over the past decade, remote sensing-based approaches have become increasingly popular river science to increase scale analysis. However, data-scarce areas been widely ignored so far, even if most remaining free flowing located such areas. this study,...

River corridors, i.e. channel and adjacent floodplains, are hotspots of biodiversity provide manifold ecosystem services. Their functioning thus their ability to maintain services is controlled by a complex interplay hydrologic, geomorphic ecologic processes. These processes both affect depend on connectivity within the river system. Today, process regimes most (large) rivers affected human activities such as construction dams reservoirs, flood protection measures or withdrawal water for...

Abstract Air pollution is a serious environmental health concern for humans and other living organisms. This study analyzes the spatial temporal characteristics of air pollutant concentrations, changes in degree pollution, wavelet coherence quality index (AQI) with pollutants various monitoring stations. The analysis based on long-term time series data (January 2016 to December 2023) (PM 2.5 , PM 10, O 3 ) from Korla, an oasis city northeastern part Tarim Basin, China. concentrations Korla...

 In the semiarid climate of Central Asia rivers and their associated floodplain ecosystems have a high relevance as regional hotspots biodiversity for provision ecosystem services. One these is Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan which part headwaters Aral Sea basin. Upstream Toktogul Reservoir, first barrier river course, still nearly natural state over length 600 km. The valuable habitats directly depend on dynamics this river. In particular rejuvenation thus community structure forests...

Grainsize is among the most important parameters in aeolian research as it controls sediment mobilization and mode of transport. Therefore, a critical parameter for instance wind erosion modeling studies which are used to analyze sand dust storms Tarim Basin, an natural hazard this region. Spatially explicit parameterization grain size difficult, texture topsoil not homogeneous across landscape. Thus, geomorphological classification Tugai landscape eastern Basin developed stratified analysis...