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	Solving the mystery of vanishing rivers in China
	Wang Yichu; Ni Jinren; Yue Yao; Li Jiaye; Borthwick Alistair G L; Cai Ximing; Xue An; Li Li; Wang Guangqian
来源期刊	National Science Review
ISSN	2095-5138
出版年	2019
卷号	6 期号:6 页码:1239-1246
英文摘要	A major controversy was sparked worldwide by a recent national water census claiming that the number of Chinese rivers with watersheds ≥100 km~2 was less than half the previous estimate of 50 000 rivers, which also stimulates debates on the potential causes and consequences. Here, we estimated the number of rivers in terms of stream-segmentation characteristics described by Horton, Strahler and Shreve stream-order rules, as well as their mixed mode for named rivers recorded in the Encyclopedia of Rivers and Lakes in China. As a result, the number of vanishing rivers has been found to be highly relevant to statistical specifications in addition to the erroneous inclusion of pseudo-rivers primarily generated in arid or frost-thaw areas. The modified Horton stream-order scheme reasonably depicts the configuration of complete natural streams from headwater to destination, while the Strahler largely projects the fragmentation of the named river networks associated with human aggregation to the hierarchical river systems.
英文关键词	vanishing rivers river network stream segmentation stream-order rules
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Other Gold
收录类别	CSCD
WOS研究方向	Geology
CSCD记录号	CSCD:6687788
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/336237
作者单位	Wang Yichu, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University;;Peking University, The Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences, Ministry of Education;;Beijing Innovation Center for Engineering Science and Advanced Technology, ;;, Beijing;;Beijing 100871;;100871.; Ni Jinren, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University;;Qinghai University, The Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences, Ministry of Education;;State Key Laboratory of Plateau Ecology and Agriculture, ;;Xining, Beijing;; 100871;;810016.; Yue Yao, School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China.; Li Jiaye, Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Beijing 100084, China.; Borthwick Alistair G L, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH9 3JL, England.; Cai Ximing, Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Lab, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang Yichu,Ni Jinren,Yue Yao,et al. Solving the mystery of vanishing rivers in China[J],2019,6(6):1239-1246.
APA	Wang Yichu.,Ni Jinren.,Yue Yao.,Li Jiaye.,Borthwick Alistair G L.,...&Wang Guangqian.(2019).Solving the mystery of vanishing rivers in China.National Science Review,6(6),1239-1246.
MLA	Wang Yichu,et al."Solving the mystery of vanishing rivers in China".National Science Review 6.6(2019):1239-1246.