Sedimentation in the Yellow River delta, part II: suspended sediment dispersal and deposition on the subaqueous delta

Li, Guangxue; Wei, Hu; Yue, Shuhong; Cheng, Yao; Han, Yeshen

doi:10.1016/s0025-3227(98)00032-2

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“…However, the high suspended sediment load has been the dominant factor controlling the delta evolution over the last 150 years. Prior to the 1970s, the delta extended rapidly into the Bohai Sea (Li et al 1998b). The reduced sediment supply in turn is increasing coastal erosion and decelerating and even stopping delta progradation altogether.…”

Section: Flooding and Sedimentationmentioning

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Social–ecological challenges in the Yellow River basin (China): a review

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The human-environment relationship within the Yellow River basin has a long history, because favorable environmental circumstances allowed the early emergence of societies along the river banks, and hence, the Yellow River basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization. On the other hand, the Yellow River is ''China's sorrow'' due to the constant occurrences of flooding events throughout history. In recent decades, the Yellow River basin is facing a spectacular economic boom, but mainly achieved at the expenses of the environment by over-exploiting the natural resources provided within the basin, which causes various challenges on ecology and society. Water scarcity, pollution, and ecosystem degradation accompanied with biodiversity decline have been further aggravated by anthropogenic-induced climate change. To address the pressing socio-ecological challenges, various conservation and management plans and strategies have been issued, often consulted by international bodies. This article is a comprehensive overview of the current state and recent developments that have occurred in the Yellow River basin and presents and discusses current and pressing socio-ecological challenges. Additionally, we address different policy and management instruments that have been launched to ensure a long-term sustainable development within the basin.

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Section: Flooding and Sedimentationmentioning

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Social–ecological challenges in the Yellow River basin (China): a review

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“…Several comprehensive overviews of the historical development of the YRD has been conducted in the last few decades (Li et al, 1998b;Liu et al, 2004;Saito et al, 2001;Xue, 1993;Yu et al, 2011). Briefly, the Yellow River is the second largest river in China with a total drainage area of 794,712 km 2 and a total length of 5464 km (Bi et al, 2014).…”

Section: A Changing Ecohydrological Environment Of Yrd Wetlandmentioning

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An overview of ecohydrology of the Yellow River delta wetland

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2016

Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology

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“…Pang and Si, 1980;Wang and Liang, 2000;Ganti et al, 2014). Since the switch, a delta of about 6113 km 2 has formed in the northeast part of Shandong Province, with the delta's vertex moving downstream gradually from Lijin (Wright et al, 1990;Li et al, 1998;Shi and Zhang, 2003) (Fig. 1).…”

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Progradation of the Yellow (Huanghe) River delta in response to the implementation of a basin-scale water regulation program

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The water and sediment supply to the lower reach and estuary of the Yellow (Huanghe) River have been altered to a very significant degree by the construction of numerous small to large reservoirs and the progressive implementation of water and soil conservation measures across the entire drainage basin since the late 1950s, followed by a basin-scale water regulation program since 2002. There is an urgent need to know how progradation of the Yellow River delta (YRD), an area on which people live and farm, has continued and will continue to respond to these controls. This study examines the changing patterns of water and sediment supply to the YRD over the period of 1950-2013 and, using remote sensing, it evaluates the morphological changes of the delta during 1976-2013. Although both water and sediment input to the delta have been described as declining significantly since the mid 1960s, we show that since 2005 the supply of water has remained at around 20 billion m 3 yr −1 and that for sediment at about 0.13 billion t yr −1 ; water input has been even slightly increasing. The dynamics of extension/shrinking and avulsion in river-mouth channels and accretion/erosion of shorelines is an integrated response to the complex variations in both sediment and water supply. This study develops a quantitative relationship between water and sediment supply and the area of land accretion and it predicts the critical condition for land accretion in the YRD. To ensure that delta land will not be lost, care is needed in the future implementation of the basin-scale water regulation program.

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Sedimentation in the Yellow River delta, part II: suspended sediment dispersal and deposition on the subaqueous delta

Cited by 101 publications

References 8 publications

Social–ecological challenges in the Yellow River basin (China): a review

Social–ecological challenges in the Yellow River basin (China): a review

An overview of ecohydrology of the Yellow River delta wetland

Progradation of the Yellow (Huanghe) River delta in response to the implementation of a basin-scale water regulation program

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