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Arid Land Geography ›› 2025, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (11): 1926-1938.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2024.703

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Ecological benefits of inter-basin water transfer in arid ecological migration regions of northwest China: A case of Huanghuatan ecological immigrant area

TIAN Jinhua1(), HUANG Xiao2, GAO Yayu2,3,4(), HAO Jianbin2, WU Guanheng5, HE Wenbo2   

  1. 1. Institute of Soil and Water Conservation of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730020, Gansu, China
    2. School of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, Gansu, China
    3. Gansu Nonferrous Engineering Survey, Design and Research Institute, Lanzhou 730030, Gansu, China
    4. Technology Innovation Center for Mine Geological Environment Restoration in the Alpine and Arid Regions, Ministry of Natural Resources, Lanzhou 730030, Gansu, China
    5. Gansu Jingtaichuan Electric Power Irrigation Water Resource Utilization Center, Baiyin 730400, Gansu, China
  • Received:2024-11-14 Revised:2025-01-09 Online:2025-11-25 Published:2025-11-26
  • Contact: GAO Yayu E-mail:tjhgyy@yeah.net;gyy@lut.edu.cn

Abstract:

Ecological migration and inter-basin water transfer are important measures for ecological restoration and environmental protection in the arid regions of northwest China, which are indispensable for rural revitalization and ecological civilization construction. This paper takes the ecological migrant area of Huanghuatan as research object, selecting 15 ecological indicators from four levels: natural meteorology, vegetation profiles, human activities and landscape patterns, constructs an ecological benefits evaluation system, and analyzes the impacts that nature and human activities have the ecological benefits of the study area from 2005 to 2020. The results indicated that: (1) Dry land, open land, and construction land increased, while other land use types fell in the Huanghuatan ecological migrant area from 2005 to 2020. The main transfer mode was conversion among dry land, grassland and bare land. (2) At the level of type, the fragmentation degree of grassland and bare land first decreased and then increased, the dry land first increased and then decreased, and other land use types went largely unchanged. At the level of landscape, with the exception of the degree of the aggregation index, indices showed a trend of increasing first and then decreasing. (3) The annual mean value of normalized difference vegetation index showed a continuous upward trend, increasing by 109.41% overall from 2005 to 2020, mainly showing a trend of continuous improvement from the high-value area to the surroundings. (4) The annual mean value of the net primary productivity (NPP) changed little, and the annual mean value of NPP in about 90% of the regions was 1-50 g C·m-2. Exploratory research on the evaluation of ecological benefit in the arid region of northwest China can provide scientific and technological support for comprehensive evaluation of the ecological environmental benefits of ecological migration and inter-basin water transfer projects, as well as ecological protection management in the northwest arid region.

Key words: ecological benefits, ecological migration, inter-basin water transfer, landscape pattern, vegetation cover, arid region of northwest China