Under the impacts of climate variability and human activities, there is violent fluctuation for streamflow in the large basins in China. Therefore, it is crucial to separate the impacts of climate variability and human activities on streamflow fluctuation for better water resources planning and management. In this study, the Three Rivers Headwater Region (TRHR) was chosen as the study area. Long-term hydrological data for the TRHR were collected in order to investigate the changes in annual runoff during the period of 1956–2012. The nonparametric Mann–Kendall test, moving t test, Pettitt test, Mann–Kendall–Sneyers test, and the cumulative anomaly curve were used to identify trends and change points in the hydro-meteorological variables. Change point in runoff was identified in the three basins, which respectively occurred around the years 1989 and 1993, dividing the long-term runoff series into a natural period and a human-induced period. Then, the hydrologic sensitivity analysis method was employed to evaluate the effects of climate variability and human activities on mean annual runoff for the human-induced period based on precipitation and potential evapotranspiration. In the human-induced period, climate variability was the main factor that increased (reduced) runoff in LRB and YARB (YRB) with contribution of more than 90 %, while the increasing (decreasing) percentage due to human activities only accounted for less than 10 %, showing that runoff in the TRHR is more sensitive to climate variability than human activities. The intra-annual distribution of runoff shifted gradually from a double peak pattern to a single peak pattern, which was mainly influenced by atmospheric circulation in the summer and autumn. The inter-annual variation in runoff was jointly controlled by the East Asian monsoon, the westerly, and Tibetan Plateau monsoons.
Ecological quality is defined as the stability, adaptability and resilience of an ecosystem. Monitoring and assessing ecological quality are important bases for China's ecological civilization construction. The national key research and development program “Technologies and guidelines for monitoring ecological quality of terrestrial ecosystems in China”, launched in July 2017, includes plans to study the observation technologies and provide guidelines on the ecological in-situ observation, the regional biodiversity and ecosystem function monitoring and its applications, all of which contribute to national ecological quality assessment. A year after its implementation, some important progress has been achieved, such as building the indicator system for comprehensive monitoring of ecological quality and improvement of the methods, mass data transmission, infrared camera-based monitoring of biodiversity, multi-angle automatic spectral observation systems, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based desert monitoring. We have organized this special issue and attempted to introduce the monitoring techniques and assessment methods on ecological quality from different perspectives in order to further promote the development of ecology and its observation methods. 相似文献
碳普惠制是一种以城市居民为主体的温室气体自愿减排机制。将乘坐地铁出行作为低碳行为纳入碳普惠制,是建设全民参与型低碳社会的重要探索。本文提出了替代法和均值法两种市民乘坐地铁出行减碳量的核算方法,并以广州市为例,计算了2015年广州市民乘坐地铁出行的减碳量。结果显示:替代法下广州市民乘坐地铁出行的减碳量约为0.5419 kg CO2/人次,均值法下约为0.5155 kg CO2/人次,如果按2015年广州市地铁系统的客运量计算,替代法和均值法下全市地铁系统的年减碳量分别约为130万t CO2和124万t CO2。其中,替代法主要参考已有的CCER方法学设计,具有一定的理论基础,但其替代出行模式的确定受被调查对象的主观影响较大,而均值法以城市现有的机动化出行模式为基准线,较少受到人为因素的干扰,均值法被认为更适合于计算碳普惠制下市民乘坐地铁出行的碳减排量。 相似文献