TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rumbaur, Christian
A1  - Thevs, Niels
A1  - Disse, Markus
A1  - Ahlheim, Michael
A1  - Brieden, Andreas
A1  - Cyffka, Bernd
A1  - Doluschitz, Reiner
A1  - Düthmann, Doris
A1  - Feike, Til
A1  - Frör, Oliver
A1  - Gärtner, Philipp
A1  - Halik, Ümüt
A1  - Hill, Joachim
A1  - Hinnenthal, Marie
A1  - Keilholz, Patrick
A1  - Kleinschmit, Birgit
A1  - Krysanova, Valentina
A1  - Kuba, Martin
A1  - Mader, Sebastian
A1  - Menz, Christoph
A1  - Othmanli, Hussein
A1  - Pelz, Sonna
A1  - Schroeder, Matthias
A1  - Siew, Tuck Fatt
A1  - Stender, Vivien
A1  - Stahr, Karl
A1  - Thomas, Frank M.
A1  - Welp, Martin
A1  - Wortmann, Michel
A1  - Zhao, Xiaoning
A1  - Chen, Xi
A1  - Jiang, Tong
A1  - Zhao, Chengyi
A1  - Zhang, Xi
A1  - Luo, Jing
A1  - Yimit, Hamid
A1  - Yu, Ruide
T1  - Sustainable management of river oases along the Tarim River in North-Western China under conditions of climate change
T2  - Earth System Dynamics Discussions
N2  - The Tarim River Basin, located in Xinjiang, NW China, is the largest endorheic river basin of China and one of the largest in whole Central Asia. Due to the extremely arid climate with an annual precipitation of less than 100 mm, the water supply along the Aksu and Tarim River solely depends on river water. This applies for anthropogenic activities (e.g. agriculture) as well as for the natural ecosystems so that both compete for water. The on-going increase of water consumption by agriculture and other human activities in this region has been enhancing the competition for water between human needs and nature. Against this background, 11 German and 6 Chinese universities and research institutes formed the consortium SuMaRiO (www.sumario.de), which aims at gaining a holistic picture of the availability of water resources in the Tarim River Basin and the impacts on anthropogenic activities and natural ecosystems caused by the water distribution within the Tarim River Basin. The discharge of the Aksu River, which is the major tributary to the Tarim, has been increasing over the past 6 decades due to enhanced glacier melt. Alone from 1989 to 2011, the area under agriculture more than doubled. Thereby, cotton became the major crop and there was a shift from small-scale farming to large-scale intensive farming. The major natural ecosystems along the Aksu and Tarim River are riparian ecosystems: Riparian (Tugai) forests, shrub vegetation, reed beds, and other grassland. Within the SuMaRiO Cluster the focus was laid on the Tugai forests, with Populus euphratica as dominant tree, because the most productive and species-rich natural ecosystems can be found among those forests. On sites with groundwater distance of less than 7.5 m the annual increments correlated with river runoffs of the previous year. But, the further downstream along the Tarim River, the more the natural river dynamics ceased, which impacts on the recruitment of Populus euphratica. Household surveys revealed that there is a considerable willingness to pay for conservation of those riparian forests with the mitigation of dust and sandstorms considered as the most important ecosystem service. This interdisciplinary project will result in a decision support tool (DST), build on the participation of regional stakeholders and models based on results and field experiments. This DST finally shall assist stakeholders in balancing the water competition acknowledging the major external effects of any water allocation.
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37215
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-372153
SN  - 2190-4995
N1  - © Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
VL  - 5
SP  - 1221
EP  - 1273
PB  - Copernicus Publ.
CY  - Göttingen
ER  -