The sediment delivery ratio in a small catchment in the black soil region of Northeast China

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摘要 TheblacksoilregionofnortheastChina,whichcoverstheProvincesofHeilongjiang,JilinandtheInnerMongoliaautonomousregionwithblacksoil,chernozemandmeadowsoil,hasexperiencedsoilerosionsinceintenseagriculturalreclamationbeganapproximately100yearsago.However,thesedimentdeliveryratio,definedasthefractionofgrosserosionthatistransportedfromagivenareainagiventimeinterval,isstillunclear.Inthisstudy,wecalculatedthedeliveryratioandanalysedchangesinerosiveprocesseswithinHebeicatchmentfrom1977to2007basedonananalysisofsedimentsoftheLiuduireservoir.Theoriginalvegetationlayerclearlyidentifiedthebottomofthereservoirwhenitwasconstructedin1977;thus,thereservoirsedimentscouldbepreciselydated.Thedeliveryratio,calculatedbycomparingthesedimentdepositioninthereservoirwiththetotalsoilerosionintheupstreamcatchment,wasfoundtobeexponentiallycorrelated(r~2=0.95,P<0.01)withdecreasinggrainsize,exceptforthefraction<0.002mm.Thedeliveryratiofortheclays(<0.002mm)waslow,averaging0.10duringthestudyperiod,whichindicatedpartialremovalofclaysfromthereservoir.Thechangesinthereservoirdepositionratereflectedthetemporalchangesintheerosionprocesses.Theexceptionallyhighrainfallin1998wasconfirmedbythedistributionsof~(137)Cs,~(210)Pb,andthegrain-sizeofthesediments.Beginningfromthepositionoftheoriginalgrasslayer,wedefinedthreeperiodsfrom1977to2007basedondepositionrates:2.40cmyear~(-1)from1977to1997,5.60cmyear~(-1)in1998duetounusuallyhighrainfall,and1.55cmyear~(-1)from1999to2007.Theoverallaveragedepositionratefortheentireperiodwas2.26cmyear~(-1).Precipitationwasfoundtobethemainfactoraffectingthesoilerosionofthestudyarea.
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出版日期 2013年01月11日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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