Impact factor analysis of aquatic species diversity in the Huai River Basin, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 2061-2071
Author(s):  
Hao Chen ◽  
Qi-ting Zuo ◽  
Yong-yong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Physicochemical Variables ◽  
Huai River Basin ◽  
Huai River ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
The Huai River Basin

Abstract Water pollution has been a significant issue in the Huai River Basin (HRB) of China since the late 1970s. From December 2012, five experiments were carried out along the main streams of the HRB. The monitoring indices contained physicochemical variables, habitat environmental indicators and the community structure of phytoplankton, zooplankton and zoobenthos. The correlations between species diversity and physicochemical variables were analyzed using cluster analysis, correlation analysis method and redundancy analysis method. Results indicated that the species diversities of the Shaying River's upstream and Huai River's mainstream were better than the Shaying River's midstream and downstream. All the sections were divided into five clusters, and different clusters were affected by different physicochemical factors. Dissolved oxygen (DO), habitat quality index (HQI) and chemical oxygen demand (CODCr) were the main factors affecting the species diversity of the Shaying River's upstream; total phosphorus (TP), total nitrogen (TN), ammonia nitrogen (NH4-N), CODCr and permanganate index (CODMn) had a great influence on the Shaying River's midstream and downstream; DO, water temperature (WT), HQI and CODCr were the main factors affecting the Huai River's mainstream. These results provide valuable information for policy decision makers and stakeholders on water quality assessment, water ecosystem restoration, and sustainable watershed management in the HRB.

scholarly journals Preliminary results of water quality assessment using phytoplankton and physicochemical approaches in the Huai River Basin, China

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (9) ◽  
pp. 2554-2564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Chen ◽  
Qi-ting Zuo ◽  
Yong-yong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Water Quality Assessment ◽  
Physicochemical Variables ◽  
Huai River Basin ◽  
Phytoplankton Communities ◽  
Huai River ◽  
The Huai River Basin

Abstract Water pollution has been a significant issue in the Huai River Basin (HRB) of China since the late 1970s. In July and December 2013, two field investigations were carried out at 10 sites along the main streams of the basin. The monitoring indices contained both physicochemical variables and the structure and composition of phytoplankton communities. The correlations between communities and physicochemical variables were analyzed using cluster analysis and redundancy analysis. Moreover, water quality was evaluated using the comprehensive nutrition state index (TLI) and Shannon-Wiener diversity index (H). Results indicated that more phytoplankton species were present in December than in July, but total density was less in December. Phytoplankton communities in the midstream of the Shaying River were affected by the same physicochemical factors throughout the year, but ammonia nitrogen and total phosphorus had the greatest influence on these sites in July and December, respectively. The water pollution status of the sampling sites was much greater in the Shaying River midstream than at other sites. TLI was more suitable than H for assessing water quality in the study area. These results provide valuable information for policy makers and stakeholders in water quality assessment, water ecosystem restoration, and sustainable basin management in the HRB.

scholarly journals Hydrological Drought Regimes of the Huai River Basin, China: Probabilistic Behavior, Causes and Implications

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 2390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sun ◽  
Zhang ◽  
Yao ◽  
Wen
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Hydrological Drought ◽  
Drought Severity ◽  
Copula Functions ◽  
Drought Duration ◽  
Huai River Basin ◽  
Huai River ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hydrological Droughts ◽  
The Huai River Basin

: Hydrological droughts were characterized using the run-length theory and the AIC (Akaike information criterion) techniques were accepted to evaluate the modeling performance of nine probability functions. In addition, the copula functions were used to describe joint probability behaviors of drought duration and drought severity for the major tributaries of the Huai River Basin (HRB) which is located in the transitional zone between humid and semi-humid climates. The results indicated that: (1) the frequency of hydrological droughts in the upper HRB is higher than that in the central HRB, while the duration of the hydrological drought is in reverse spatial pattern. The drought frequency across the Shiguan River along the south bank of the HRB is higher than the other two tributaries; (2) generalized Pareto distribution is the appropriate distribution function with the best performance in modelling the drought duration over the HRB; while the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution can effectively describe the probabilistic properties of the drought severity. Joe copula and Tawn copula functions are the best choices and were used in this study. Given return periods of droughts of <30 years, the droughts in the upper HRB are the longest, and the shortest are in the central HRB; (3) the frequency of droughts along the mainstream of the HRB is higher than tributaries of the HRB. However, concurrence probability of droughts along the mainstream of the HRB is lower than the tributaries of the HRB. The drought resistance capacity of HRB has been significantly improved, effectively reducing the impact of hydrological drought on crops after 2010.

The spatial and temporal variation of water use efficiency in the Huai River Basin using a comprehensive indicator

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Meng ◽  
Xiang Zhang ◽  
Dunxian She ◽  
Junchai Wang ◽  
Shaofei Wu
Keyword(s):  
Water Use Efficiency ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variation ◽  
Huai River Basin ◽  
Huai River ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
The Government ◽  
Comprehensive Indicator ◽  
The Huai River Basin

A comprehensive indicator of water use efficiency (WUE) to promote coordinated development between socio-economic and environmental systems was developed. A comprehensive consideration of the social, economic and environmental benefits of water was made in the evaluation index system of WUE and the projection pursuit model combined with chaotic particle swarm optimization was adopted to calculate the comprehensive indicator of WUE. The Huai River Basin (HRB) was selected as a case study area. The temporal change of WUE showed that the annual WUE of the HRB from 2007 to 2013 increased obviously because of the enhanced emphasis on environmental protection by the government. The spatial results showed that the spatial WUE of each province in 2013 was significantly higher than in 2007. In 2013, Anhui with the lowest WUE was selected as representative to reveal the problems of water use in the HRB. The main reasons were that the government paid more attention to the high water consumption industries and ignored the small-scale water users, and wastewater treatment was still weak in the HRB. The research can provide the foundation for improving WUE and solving the problem of water shortages.

scholarly journals Spatial variation of stable isotopic composition in surface waters of the Huai River basin, China and the regional hydrological implication

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 1452-1466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Ruiqiang Yuan ◽  
Xianfang Song ◽  
Jun Xia
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Surface Waters ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Lower Latitude ◽  
Huai River Basin ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Huai River ◽  
Δ18o And Δd ◽  
The Huai River Basin

Abstract Oxygen (δ18O) and hydrogen (δD) stable isotopes in the surface waters of the Huai River basin were analyzed in this study. Results indicated the northern waters had higher δ18O and δD than the southern waters, the water δ18O and δD increased along the water flow directions. These variations mostly resulted from the spatial differences of precipitation and evaporation. Comparing with published different continents' river water δ18O data, this study suggests that evaporation effect is a more plausible interpretation than altitude effect as the cause of δ18O increasing from upriver to downriver waters. This region's local surface water line (LSWL, δD = 5.36δ18O − 18.39; r2 = 0.84) represents one of the first presented LSWLs in eastern China. The correlation between d-excess and δ18O demonstrates this region is dominated by the Pacific oceanic moisture masses in summer. Comparing the various LSWLs from eastern China and eastern United States river waters, this study proposes a hypothesis that the water LSWLs slopes of lower latitude regions may be less than those of higher latitude regions within similar topographic areas. This hypothesis may be tested in other geographically comparable coupled areas in the world if corresponding large-scale data can be found.

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