| Check dam infilling archives elucidate historical sedimentary dynamics in a semiarid landscape of the Loess Plateau, China | |
Tang, Qiang1,2 ; Wang, Shuai3; Fu, Bojie2,3; Wang, Yafeng2; Gao, Guangyao2
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| 2018 | |
| Source Publication | ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
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| ISSN | 0925-8574 |
| EISSN | 1872-6992 |
| Volume | 118Pages:161-170 |
| Subtype | Article |
| Abstract | The Loess Plateau in China exhibited high magnitudes of soil erosion, where multiple soil conservation schemes have been implemented over the past decades. Understanding the efficacy and rationality of conservation practices on erosion mitigation is critical for contemporary strategy adjustment, which currently is hampered by the unavailability of historical observations on sediment yields at most ungauged catchments. Check dams were built with the primary purpose of sediment retention, while the infilling archives register historical sedimentary dynamics. A 485-cm long sediment core was extracted from a check dam in a restored agricultural catchment in the hilly Loess Plateau. Sedimentary stratigraphy was defined at 5-cm resolutions by continuous equivalent sectioning, and differentiated according to absolute grain-size composition and Cesium-137 (Cs-137) profile. Discernable stratigraphic laminations, featured by a fine-grained layer overlying on a coarse-grained layer, were observed, which were conducted by particle selectivity associated with soil detachment and sediment transport processes. Erosion and sediment dynamics across this semiarid landscape is strictly defined by extreme summer storms with large magnitude, low frequency and short duration. Sediment chronology was determined by ascribing the identified laminations to historical storm events. We found that the core profile showed evidence of at least 11 depositional events, which finally were connected with 11 major storms over the time period 1981-1983. We concluded that integrating stratigraphy differentiation of equivalent core segments along depositional profiles with storm records is diagnostic for inferring historical sedimentary dynamics. |
| Keyword | Sedimentary dynamics Stratigraphy differentiation Sediment chronology Ecological restoration Check dam Loess Plateau |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2018.05.004 |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| WOS Keyword | YELLOW-RIVER BASIN ; SOIL-EROSION ; CARBON SEQUESTRATION ; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ; NORTHERN SHAANXI ; DELIVERY PROBLEM ; FLOW REGULATION ; WORLDS RIVERS ; HILLY AREA ; LAND-USE |
| Language | 英语 |
| Quartile | 3区 |
| Funding Project | National Natural Science Foundation of China[41501284] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41390464] ; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation[2015M571138] ; UK Royal Society Newton International Fellowship[NF161415] |
| TOP | 否 |
| WOS Research Area | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Engineering |
| WOS Subject | Ecology ; Engineering, Environmental ; Environmental Sciences |
| WOS ID | WOS:000432518800018 |
| Funding Organization | National Natural Science Foundation of China ; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation ; UK Royal Society Newton International Fellowship |
| Publisher | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/21469 |
| Collection | 山地表生过程与生态调控重点实验室 |
| Corresponding Author | Fu, Bojie |
| Affiliation | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Mt Hazards & Environm, Key Lab Mt Surface Proc & Ecol Regulat, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Res Ctr Ecoenvironm Sci, State Key Lab Urban & Reg Ecol, Beijing 100085, Peoples R China 3.Beijing Normal Univ, Fac Geog Sci, State Key Lab Earth Surface Proc & Resource, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China |
| First Author Affilication | 中国科学院水利部成都山地灾害与环境研究所 |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Tang, Qiang,Wang, Shuai,Fu, Bojie,et al. Check dam infilling archives elucidate historical sedimentary dynamics in a semiarid landscape of the Loess Plateau, China[J]. ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING,2018,118:161-170. |
| APA | Tang, Qiang,Wang, Shuai,Fu, Bojie,Wang, Yafeng,&Gao, Guangyao.(2018).Check dam infilling archives elucidate historical sedimentary dynamics in a semiarid landscape of the Loess Plateau, China.ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING,118,161-170. |
| MLA | Tang, Qiang,et al."Check dam infilling archives elucidate historical sedimentary dynamics in a semiarid landscape of the Loess Plateau, China".ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 118(2018):161-170. |
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