Humans have been transforming natural surface water bodies into various types of artificial
water cover to meet the growing demand for food, energy, and flood protection in recent …

An attribute study of the runoff changes due to climate change and anthropogenic activities
is of great value to determining the best response to runoff changes. This study investigates …

Inland surface water is often the most accessible freshwater source. As opposed to
groundwater, surface water is replenished in a comparatively quick cycle, which makes this …

It is common to conceptualize wetlands as a nature-based flood defense for improving basin
resilience to climate change. Yet, such a solution is often ignored when projecting or …

Abstract Changes to the morphology of the upper Yellow River (UYR) had various impacts
on the surrounding ecology and society, as well as the entire basin. However, low-spatial …

Floodplain wetlands of low-gradient rivers are especially sensitive to alteration of hydrologic
conditions. Although many studies have investigated changes in downstream hydrologic …

Water security, the access to adequate amounts of water of adequate quality, is and will
remain a hugely important issue over the next decades as climate change and related …

The Xianghai National Nature Reserve of Jilin is located on the East Asian-Australian
migration route of birds and plays an important role for migratory waterbirds. To explore the …

The conventional point-estimate human health risk assessment (HHRA) primarily uses
average concentrations of a limited number of samples due to the high monitoring costs of …

Water resources are a key factor restricting human survival and social and economic
development. The Miyun Reservoir, which is the only surface drinking water source in …