其他摘要 | A phenomenon of sediment discharge was significantly decreasing in the Yellow
River, and research on the causes and mechanism of this hotspot phenomenon is
seriously lacking. A check dam, which was constructed at 2003, was selected from the
middle reaches of the Yangou watershed for analyzing the deposition sediment profile
in recent ten years. This thesis was aimd to analyze the evolution of watershed
sediment feature during the performance period when the‘grain for green project’
(GGP) program has been implemented four years. The erosion modulus from 2003 to
2011 was obtained according to the relationship between the deposition sediment size
diameter and the annual rainfall in the watershed. The annual change of vegetation in
the watershed was analyzed by remote sensing technology, and the relationship
between vegetation and erosion was established. The source of sediment from the
watershed was identified by using composite fingerprint recognition technology.
The results of the study provide a scientific reference to evaluate the implementation
benefits of the GGP program and it may illuminate the significantly decreasing
sediment discharge in the Yellow River. The main conclusions are as follows:
(1) The change of land use type in watershed was analyzed, and the temporal and
spatial evolution of vegetation restoration in small watershed was also analyzed by
remote sensing. The change of land use type in the watershed was caused by the
implementation of the GGP program. The slope farmland decreased 1.03 km 2 , which
account for 19.7% watershed area. And 64.1%, 12.6% and 23.3% of abandoned
farmland was conducted at 1999, 2000-2001 and 2002, respectively. Tree was the
main vegetation type grow in the abandoned farmland, and mainly appeared in the
form of the combination of tree, shrub and grass type. Tree type is dominated by
Robinia pseudoacacia and apple trees, shrub is dominated by Caragana korshinskii,
and grass is dominated by Artemisia annua and weed. The annual NDVI (normalized
vegetation index) showed an increasing trend with an average value of 0.61,
indicating an increasing vegetation cover and improving ecological environment. The
change process can be divided into four stage: 1) the increasing stage with an average degree of 2% in 1999-2002; 2) the second increasing stage with an average degree of
2% in 2003-2006; 3) stable stage in 2007-2008; 4) the decreasing stage with an
average degree of 1% in 2009-2011. There have no significant difference between
annual rainfall and NDVI during 2003-2011.
(2) The detachment and transport process of watershed was revealed by
analyzing the particle size distribution of the deposition sediment profile. Silt content
was the domination particle in the deposition sediment with an average value of
71.83%, followed by clay and sand content with average value of 15.53% and 12.64%,
respectively. Among the deposition profile, there exist a particle size distribution
turning point, which can be used as discriminating the influence of hydro-sediment
dynamics and gully slope on the particle size distribution in the deposition sediment.
The variation degree in different sediment particles is different. The silt and sand
content are medium variation while clay content belongs to weak variation and the
variability of sand content is the biggest among them.
(3) The historical evolution of soil erosion was clarified by analyzing the law of
sediment deposition according to the relationship between the deposition sediment
size diameter and the annual rainfall in the watershed. The total soil erosion was
6063.91 t and the average erosion modulus was 137.04 t/(km 2 •a), which was only
2.3% of the value before watershed comprehensive control project implementation,
and the average annual decline rate is 10.86%. The watershed erosion modulus was
mild erosion, which was less than 200 t/(km 2 •a) and with slight annual fluctuation.
This indicates that the erosion modulus was mild erosion in the watershed in the new
erosion environment background and be of great significance effect for watershed
comprehensive control project implementation.
(4) The correlation relationship among annual mean rainfall, vegetation and
erosion was established, and the sediment response mechanism was elucidated. The
watershed erosion during 2003-2011 was influence by joint effect of annual mean
rainfall and vegetation restoration, while there was no significant correlation between
soil erosion and annual mean rainfall and average NDVI. The vegetation restoration
for soil erosion reduction effect had been exerted before 2003, and it was the domination effect during 2003-2011. The watershed erosion modulus was controlled
as mild erosion by the joint effect of annual rainfall and vegetation restoration.
Therefore, the erosion condition would reach a stable stage after 5 years of the GGP
program implementation if the rainfall condition do not have great change. However,
the joint effect of human activity and vegetation restoration on watershed soil erosion
is still need further research.
(5) The source of sediment from the watershed was identified by using
composite fingerprint recognition technology. Forest land, grassland, shrub land,
gentle slope farmland, apple orchard and branch channel were identified as potential
sediment sources. In total, 12 properties of soil surface samples was determined from
six kinds of potential sediment sources and Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn and K were chosen as the
optimum fingerprint factors by using multiple discriminant analysis. The erosion
contribution of each sediment sources was calculated by optimization hybrid model
using these optimum fingerprint factors. The results indicated the calculated
contribution of sediment from slope farmland, grassland, woodland and branch
channel under different deposition layer is of great variation. The contribution of
sediment from forest land, grassland, shrub land, gentle slope farmland, apple orchard
and branch channel were 29.36%,13.9%,2.43%,11.74%,2.2% and 40.38%,
respectively, and sediment was dominated came from the branch channel area.
Keywords: Sediment response;Erosion environment evolution;A typical watershed;
The normalized vegetation index (NDVI) |
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