Changing landscapes by damming: the Three Gorges Dam causes downstream lake shrinkage and severe droughts

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• 作者：Yuanbo Liu ; Guiping Wu ; Ruifang Guo ; Rongrong Wan
• 关键词：Three Gorges Dam ; Human activity ; Landscape process
• 刊名：Landscape Ecology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：31
• 期：8
• 页码：1883-1890
• 全文大小：849 KB
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Landscape Ecology
  Plant Ecology
  Forestry Management
  Forestry
  Ecology
  Plant Sciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-9761
• 卷排序：31

文摘

ContextThe world’s largest dam—the Three Gorges Dam (TGD)—has been in operation for more than 10 years. While the recent shrinkage of large lakes and increased severe droughts in the downstream have been subjectively ascribed to TGD, empirical support based on thorough analysis is still lacking, leaving a gap for ecologists to quantify the TGD impacts on the surrounding landscapes.