Monitoring and Evaluation of Hydrology and Ecology in Mining Areas
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Quality and Contamination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2024) | Viewed by 3405
Special Issue Editors
2. School of Water and Environment, Chang’an University, Xi’an, China
Interests: soil environmental quality; soil erosion; hydrology ecology; geological disaster
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2. School of Water and Environment, Chang’an University, 710064 Xi’an, China
Interests: urban flood; flood management; hydrological modeling; water quality analysis; statistical analysis; sustainable water resource management; ecohydrology
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Interests: wastewater treatment; heavy metals removal; soil remediation; adsorption
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the past few decades, different indicators and models for evaluating ecosystem service function have emerged in order to solve the problems of species loss and habitat fragmentation. Under the influence of natural factors and human activities, land use transformation directly affects the material circulation and energy flow of the ecosystem and changes habitat quality. Understanding the temporal and spatial evolution characteristics of LUCC and assessing habitat quality are aid the effectiveness of ecological environment management, ecological health protection, and green sustainable development. However, the factors affecting the spatial-temporal evolution of the ecological environment and the degree of influence human activities have need to be further quantitatively analyzed. In these cases, simulating and analyzing the changes and driving factors of ecosystem service functions, realizing spatial visualizations of simulation results, and evaluating the quality of the ecological environment are reliable methods to maintain the sustainable development of ecosystems.
Given this scientific framework, we would like to invite scientists involved in this research field to contribute to this Special Issue, which will focus broadly on the analysis, assessment, and/or prediction of changes in the ecological environment caused by natural factors, human activities, or other driving factors, as well as the temporal and spatial transformation of land use, mine-related geological environment monitoring, and ecological restoration. Therefore, manuscripts in the form of case studies on land use change simulation and prediction, habitat quality analysis and assessment, large-scale or regional ecological planning, and landscape pattern optimization strategies, as well as studies that assess trends in ecological environment change and explore temporal and spatial variation in ecosystem service functions at different scales, will be welcomed.
Prof. Dr. Aidi Huo
Prof. Dr. Pingping Luo
Dr. Chunli Zheng
Guest Editors
Assoc. Prof. Lili Liu
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- habitat quality assessment
- ecological restoration
- land use change
- ecological environment monitoring
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