Publications by authors named "Qing-wen Min"

Under rapid industrialization and urbanization, the conservation and management of agricultural heritage systems is facing many threats and challenges, such as the massive outflow of working labor, land abandonment, and the difficulty in maintaining traditional knowledge systems. Promoting land transfer and carrying out moderate-scale management play an active role in the conservation of agricultural heritage systems. While land transfer brings economic benefits to heritage sites, its environmental impacts to heritage sites are worthy of attention.

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Integrated watershed management based on aquatic ecosystems has been increasingly acknowledged. Such a change in the philosophy of water environment management requires recognizing the carrying capacity of aquatic ecosystems for human society from a more general perspective. The concept of the water ecological carrying capacity is therefore put forward, which considers both water resources and water environment, connects socio-economic development to aquatic ecosystems and provides strong support for integrated watershed management.

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Taking the paddy fields planted with glutinous rice and hybrid rice in the traditional agricultural region in Congjiang County of Guizhou Province as the case, and by using semi-experiment combined with random sampling investigation, this paper studied the characteristics of weed community in the paddy fields under rice monoculture (R), rice-fish culture (R-F), and rice-fish-duck culture (R-F-D). Under the three rice farming systems, glutinous rice had higher capability in inhibiting weeds, compared with hybrid rice. Farming system R-F-D decreased the weed density significantly, with the control effect on Monochoia vaginalis and Rotala indica being 100%.

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Wind erosion is one of the most important factors influencing the stability and functions of typical grassland ecosystem and one of the main reasons causing grassland degradation. In order to understand the effects of the human disturbances to the ability of anti-wind erosion of the typical grasslands, a wind tunnel experiment was made and the wind erosion rates (WER) and wind erosion amount (WEA) were selected to illustrate the effects. From the experiment, it can be found that banned-grazing reduced the WEA and the WER markedly.

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Article Synopsis
  • Converting degraded farmlands into forests or grasslands is crucial for combating severe soil erosion in the Loess Plateau, an area facing significant ecological challenges.
  • The region has low precipitation and high evapotranspiration, making water a critical factor for vegetation restoration.
  • Recent studies estimated that the Loess Plateau's forests require between 262.49 x 10(8) m3 (minimum) and 421.34 x 10(8) m3 (suitable) of ecological water, with significant areas currently suffering from water shortages.
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