The Design for the Shelter-forest Project along the Tarim Desert Highway in Xinjiang, China
The Tarim Desert Highway plays an important role in the exploitation of oil and gas resources and in the economic and social development in the Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China. The Tarim Desert Highway with a length of 446 kilometers runs through the Taklimakan Desert, one of the largest sand seas in the world. Affected by strong wind and mobile dunes, more than 90％ of the physical shelter system of the Tarim Desert Highway has been destroyed. And furthermore, it is more and more difficult to contr01 sand-blown disasters that affect the road. Consequently, it is imperative to implement a eco-system project for establishing a shelter-forest system along the Tarim Desert Highway, the design of which is based on the results of researches on the physical characteristics and the law of the sand-blown disasters along the Tarim Desert Highway, and on the results of testing and experimental researches on controlling the sand- blown disasters by biological measures. Selection and determination of plant species, structures of the forest belts, the irrigating system and the irrigating quota were made according to the differences of the site-specific conditions.
Tarim Desert Highway Taklimakan Desert Shelter-forest Project Design
LEI Jiaqiang XU Xinwen LI Bingwen WANG De CHANG Qing WANG Haifeng KONG Qinghao
Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China
国际会议
中国-欧盟荒漠化综合治理研讨会(The China-EU Workshop on Integrated Approach to Combat Desertification)
北京
英文
274-279
2003-10-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）