Journal article
Freshwater lake ecosystem shift caused by social-economic transitions inYangtze River Basin over the past century
Ke Zhang, Xiangdong Yang, Giri Kattel, Qi Lin, Ji Shen
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS | NATURE PORTFOLIO | Published : 2018
Abstract
Global lake systems have undergone rapid degradation over the past century. Scientists and managers are struggling to manage the highly degraded lake systems to cope with escalating anthropogenic pressures. Improved knowledge of how lakes and social systems co-evolved up to the present is vital for understanding, modeling, and anticipating the current and future ecological status of lakes. Here, by integrating paleoenvironmental, instrumental and historical documentary resources at multi-decadal scales, we demonstrate how a typical shallow lake system evolved over the last century in the Yangtze River Basin, an urbanized region containing thousands of shallow lakes. We find abrupt ecological..
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Awarded by National Basic Research Program of China (NBRPC)
Awarded by Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Awarded by One Hundred Talent Program"of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (NBRPC (#2017YFA0605200), Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (#41621002), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (#41530753 and #41772378), and One Hundred Talent Program"of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (#Y6SL011001 to Zhang Ke).