Water shortage is increasingly limiting the luxury use of water in rice cultivation. In this study, non‐flooded mulching cultivation of rice only consumed a fraction of the water that was needed for traditional flooded cultivation and largely maintained the grain yield. We also investigated the growth and development of rice plants and examined grain yield formation when rice was subjected to non‐flooded mulching cultivation. One indica hybrid rice combination was grown in a field experiment and three cultivation methods, traditional flooding (TF), non‐flooded straw mulching cultivation (SM) and non‐flooded plastic mulching cultivation (PM), were conducted during the whole season. Grain yield showed that there was no significant difference between SM and TF rice, but the grain yield of SM cultivation was significantly higher than that of PM. The tiller numbers were inhibited in the early stage under non‐flooded mulching cultivation, but the situation was reversed at the later period. Both SM and PM rice reduced dry matter accumulation of shoot, but increased root dry weight, enhanced the remobilization of assimilates from stems to grains and increased the harvest index. During the middle and later grain filling period, mulched plants showed a faster decrease in chlorophyll concentrations, photosynthetic rates of flag leaves and root activity than TF rice, indicating that non‐flooded mulching cultivation enhanced plant senescence. In comparison, SM treatment produced higher grain yield and, more dry matter accumulation and panicle numbers than the PM treatment. The overall results suggest that high yield of non‐flooded mulching cultivation of rice can be achieved with much improved irrigational water use efficiency.
Water resources carrying capacity was evaluated by using fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method after the evaluation index system was constructed according to water resources condition, socio-economic development level and economic structure characteristics in Heifei City. The results showed that development and utilization degree of water resources was high and further development and utilization potential was small. The water resources development potential of city proper was the minimum in all regions and WRCC of it was saturated. The development and utilization degree of water resources in Feixi County was smaller than other districts, there were certain development potential. On this basis, some suggestions and measures were proposed for improve regional water resources carrying capacity and ensure regional sustainable development.
The evaluation index system of water resources sustainable utilization was constructed according to the actual situation of water resources development and utilization in Huaibei City, using the matter element analysis method, analyzed water resources sustainable utilization. The results showed that water resources sustainable utilization status were significantly different in different areas of Huaibei City. The potential of water resources development and utilization was great in Suixi County. The water resources developments of Duji District and Lieshan District have a considerable scale, but there were still some potential for the development and utilization. The degree of water resources utilization was large and water resources carrying capacity was saturated in Xiangshan District. The evaluation result showed that using the matter element analysis method in comprehensive evaluation of water resources development and utilization was feasible.
The effect of spatial distribution of rainfall is considered to be main uncertain factor for hydrologic simulation. Based on calibration and validation of the SWAT model, using the 15 rainfall stations data ,analyzed the effect of spatial distribution of rainfall on runoff modeling in Xixi Watershed of Jinjiang basin. The results show that the difference of the rainfall spatial distribution is very obvious by calculating standard deviation. The effect of the difference of rainfall spatial distribution to simulation results is significant by comparing runoff simulation of different years in which the average of all rainfall stations precipitation was similar. The uncertain spatial distribution of rainfall must be considered in the hydrological simulation.
Water resources carrying capacity (WRCC) is an important factor which influences development speed and scale of society and economy. The evaluation index system of WRCC was constructed according to municipal economic development status and the utilization of water resources in Suzhou City, using the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, analyzed water resources carrying capacity in different years. The results showed that water resources carrying capacity has tended to be smaller in recent years. It indicated that the development and utilization of water resources were large, water resources carrying capacity was close to saturation and the development potential of water resources was small in Suzhou City.
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