Assessing the evolution of oases in arid regions by reconstructing their historic spatio-temporal distribution: a case study of the Heihe River Basin, China

• Published in: Frontiers of earth science Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 629 - 642
• Main Authors: XIE, Yaowen, WANG, Guisheng, WANG, Xueqiang, FAN, Peilei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Beijing Higher Education Press 01.12.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Abandonment; Agricultural policy; arid region; Arid regions; Arid zones; Case studies; China; cultivated oasis; Defense programs; driving factors; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Ecological conditions; Economic factors; Evolution; Forces (mechanics); Heihe River Basin; Historic sites; Hydrologic processes; Hydrology; landscape change; Microclimate; Oases; politics; Remote sensing; Research Article; River basins; Rivers; socioeconomic factors; Socioeconomics; Spatial distribution; spatio-temporal process; Stability; Taiwan; Temporal distribution; Watersheds; China; Taiwan; arid region; Heihe River Basin; cultivated oasis; driving factors; landscape change; spatiotemporal process

Oasis evolution, one of the most obvious surface processes in arid regions, affects various aspects of the regional environment, such as hydrological processes, ecological conditions, and microclimates. In this paper, the historical spatio-temporal evolution of the cultivated oases in the Heihe Rive...