干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Influencing Factors and Evaluation of Groundwater Ecological Function in Arid/Semiarid Regions of China: A Review

Arid

DOI	10.3390/su16041631
	Influencing Factors and Evaluation of Groundwater Ecological Function in Arid/Semiarid Regions of China: A Review
	Cui, Haohao; Yan, Mingjiang; Wang, Qian; Zhang, Guanghui; Feng, Huimin; Lang, Xujuan
通讯作者	Wang, Q
来源期刊	SUSTAINABILITY
EISSN	2071-1050
出版年	2024
卷号	16 期号:4
英文摘要	In arid and semi-arid areas, due to drought climate and shortage of water resources, groundwater is crucial for natural ecological protection and economic development. It serves a dual role as a resource function and an ecological function. However, with the continuous improvement of the exploitation and utilization of groundwater by human activities during rapid economic development, the phenomenon of groundwater overexploitation is becoming more and more serious, which has destroyed the natural balance of groundwater recharge and discharge. As a result, natural vegetation has lost the maintenance of the ecological function of groundwater, and a series of ecological and environmental problems have occurred, such as natural vegetation degradation, land desertification, sandstorms, and so on. In recent years, scholars have carried out research on groundwater resource management and optimization of water resource allocation, trying to solve the problem of water balance in arid regions. However, there is still a lack of comprehensive understanding and systematization regarding influencing factors and degeneration mechanisms related to groundwater's ecological function. By summarizing and analyzing the previous research results, this paper summarizes the influencing factors, evaluation methods, existing problems and future directions of groundwater ecological function research in China to provide a reference for rational exploitation and utilization of groundwater and ecological protection. This paper is divided into four main contents. The first part introduces the definition of groundwater ecological function (GEF); the second part summarizes the research status of influencing factors of GEF, including the groundwater table depth, vegetation root system and lithologic structure of vadose zone, etc.; the third part analyzes the evaluation of groundwater ecological function; the fourth part discusses the existing problems in the study of groundwater ecological functions, and based on the above research the evaluation framework of GEF is proposed with the Shiyang River basin as a case study; and finally, it highlights the future research directions about GEF.
英文关键词	groundwater natural vegetation northwest China vadose zone ecological water level
类型	Review
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:001172479700001
WOS关键词	WATER-USE PATTERNS ; PLANT-WATER ; VEGETATION ; AREA ; ECOSYSTEMS ; MANAGEMENT ; CLIMATE ; DESERT ; SYSTEM ; SHRUBS
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/405701
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Cui, Haohao,Yan, Mingjiang,Wang, Qian,et al. Influencing Factors and Evaluation of Groundwater Ecological Function in Arid/Semiarid Regions of China: A Review[J],2024,16(4).
APA	Cui, Haohao,Yan, Mingjiang,Wang, Qian,Zhang, Guanghui,Feng, Huimin,&Lang, Xujuan.(2024).Influencing Factors and Evaluation of Groundwater Ecological Function in Arid/Semiarid Regions of China: A Review.SUSTAINABILITY,16(4).
MLA	Cui, Haohao,et al."Influencing Factors and Evaluation of Groundwater Ecological Function in Arid/Semiarid Regions of China: A Review".SUSTAINABILITY 16.4(2024).