Subjects: Other Disciplines >> Synthetic discipline submitted time 2023-03-28 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》
Abstract： Not only the grain rations must be secured absolutely in China, but also the feed grains. However, the limited arable land resource in China determines that grass planting shall not “compete for land with staple food”. Planting high quality salt-tolerant forage grass on the saline wasteland and developing animal husbandry production can not only meet the demand of increasing proportion of animal protein in Chinese diet structure, but more importantly, it can help to solve the problems of insufficient forage planting and import over-dependence. Hence it plays an important role in guaranteeing national food security. Therefore, it is necessary to use modern biological seed industry technology to accelerate the selection and breeding of salt-tolerant and water-resistant grass varieties, build the supporting system of coastal salt-alkali grass high-yield cultivation technology, and develop high-quality forage and crop straw mixed processing and storage technology to achieve the maximum utilization of biomass resources. The construction of “Coastal Grass Belt” will help to build an ecological barrier in the coastal area, and play an important role in keeping the coastal ecosystem healthy and improving the ecosystem service function.
Subjects: Other Disciplines >> Synthetic discipline submitted time 2023-03-28 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》
Abstract： The arid region of Northwest China is one of the driest regions in the world and is characterized with severe water scarcity.Water shortage is the most critical natural factor limiting the high-quality economic and social development and ecological security in the arid region of Northwest China. Based on the long-term monitoring data from the field stations of Chinese Academy of Sciences, observation data of meteorological stations, water resources bulletin and the remote sensing data, this study systematically analyzes the basic characteristics of water resources and ecological environment in the arid region of Northwest China, assesses the changing trends of hydrological elements, water resources, and ecological environment. Besides, this study analyzes the changes of water resources carrying capacity in terms of water use structure and water resources utilization efficiency, and puts forward some suggestions on sustainable water resources utilization and ecological and environmental protection. The results show that the temperature in the arid region of Northwest China has increased at a rate of 0.32℃/decade and precipitation has increased at a rate of 9.32 mm/decade. The glaciers are shrinking at accelerating rate and the runoff supplied by glacier/snow meltwater has increased. The amount of water resources has increased by about 11 billion m3 since the mid-1990s. In the past decade, water use efficiency has been improved, water-saving irrigation area has been expanded, and agricultural water production efficiency has been improved due to water conservation and utilization measures. Water environment capacity has been increased, water carrying capacity has been enhanced, surface water area has been expanded, and the ecosystem condition has improved. However, water resources problems are still prominent in the arid region of Northwest China, the intensity of extreme climate and hydrological events has increased, and the ecological environment is still fragile. In the future, it is necessary to further explore the water resources potential of this region, improve the water resources management, and enhance ecological protection and restoration efforts for better adaptation to the possible risks of climate change, so as to provide scientific and technological support for promoting the construction of the “Green Silk Road” and realizing high-quality regional economic and social development.
Subjects: Other Disciplines >> Synthetic discipline submitted time 2023-03-28 Cooperative journals: 《中国科学院院刊》
Abstract： The Luancheng Agro-Ecosystem Experimental Station, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is located in the piedmont plain area of North China Plain and the middle section of the Taihang Mountain alluvial plain. It is a typical representative of the high-yield agricultural eco-system in the groundwater irrigation area. Due to the large-scale and high-intensity agricultural production in recent decades, the regional groundwater has been seriously over exploited, and the risk of groundwater pollution has increased. However, the surface agro-ecosystem and aquifer are separated by thick vadose zones, hence the mechanism of the impact of surface agricultural activities on the quantity and quality of groundwater is still unclear. The in-situ monitoring throughout the entire vadose zone is the only method to reveal the mechanism of this process. Therefore, the establishment of a large-scale critical zone observatory is the most important requisite for conducting research on the relationship between agriculture and groundwater. With the support of the corner#2;stone research infrastructure project for the field station network of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Luancheng Station began to construct the “Water and Solute Cycle Observation Platform in Groundwater-Soil-Crop System” in 2016, and the construction was completed in November 2020. An observatory caisson with a depth of 48 m and an inner diameter of 2.8 m has been built. The platform was officially named ‘Luancheng Critical Zone Observatory’ (LC-CZO). LC-CZO can measure the key variables such as soil water content, matric potential, soil temperature, and solute concentration in the root zone-deep vadose zone-saturated zone. The monitoring results enable the study on the patterns of the transport and transformation of water,solutes and pollutants in the thick vadose zone reveal the hydrological process of the saturated-unsaturated transition zone and its relationship with groundwater replenishment, explain the migration and transformation of nitrogen applied in farmland and its impact on groundwater quality, and provide experimental platform support for exploring the impact mechanism of land surface process on the groundwater quantity and quality.
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