全球非常年河流的流行
Mathis Loïc Messager1,2, Bernhard Lehner3, Charlotte Cockburn4,5
1Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. mathis.messager@mail.mcgill.ca.
Nature
|June 17, 2021
概括
不常年河流比常年河流更常见,占全球河流的51%至60%. 这一发现强调了需要在河流管理和保护工作中包括间歇性流量.
科学领域:
- 淡水科学
- 水文学
- 生态学
- 环境科学
背景情况:
- 流水对生物多样性,生物地化学循环和人类社会至关重要.
- 永久性河流是很好的研究,但非永久性河流 (那些定期停止流动) 往往被忽视.
- 这种疏忽会导致数以百万计的人丧失重要水资源.
研究的目的:
- 预测非常年河流的全球流行情况.
- 通过强调流量间歇性的意义,挑战现有的河流概念.
- 为更好的全球淡水资源管理提供基础.
主要方法:
- 使用全球河流水文,气候,地质和土地覆盖的数据.
- 开发了预测模型来估计河流间歇性的程度.
- 绘制了非常年河流的全球分布图.
主要成果:
- 预计全球51%至60%的河流每年至少会停止流动一天.
- 在所有气候,生物和大陆上都存在非常年河流.
- 表明间歇性河流是常态, 而不是例外.
结论:
- 淡水科学需要改变范式, 将流量间歇性纳入河流概念.
- 了解和管理非常年河流对于全球生物多样性和人类福祉至关重要.
- 绘制间歇性河流是解决淡水科学挑战的关键一步.
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