Many have now been preserved into regions of ecological prosperity, providing an oasis for migrating water fowl and other freshwater enthusiasts, such as alligators.
In this context, ecological niche presented in the oasis ecosystem could provide a new model to study and dissect the key factors driving the stability of this ecosystem [ 10].
This underlines the significance of SOC to preserve the scarce and susceptible agro-ecological resources of the river oasis in Western Mongolia and likely many similar ones across Central Asia.
Windblown sand flux and dune field evolving toward the oasis have been a common ecological and environmental threat confronted by many countries.
The Chinese government set up the Heihe Basin Authority in 1999 for the uniform distribution of water throughout the basin and for diverting water downstream to Ejina County to alleviate the deteriorating ecological environment and to preserve the Ejina oasis.
Within the two macroregions, the north and south groups of oases, we observed a significant difference among oases (Supplementary Table 2) indicating the presence of oasis-specific bacterial community supporting a concept of "ecological island".
It is believed that there are a series of landscape ecological problems such as low landscape ecological connectivity, simplified landscape structure and the more oasis fragmentation.
Furthermore, the methods introduced in this paper for ET and deep percolation calculation of cotton filed could be used to quantify the oasis hydrologic cycle of micro-irrigation, to gain a better understanding of the ecological process.
An agricultural oasis is a typical landscape in arid regions providing precious fertile soil, living space and ecological services.
As an urban oasis, Wuhan International Garden EXPO darns the divided city; as a public space, it provides an ecological space for more citizens to visit and enjoy.
Because these economic-socio-ecological problems are generally more serious in ecologically fragile areas, this study focuses on trends seen in Ganzhou District, a typical oasis city within the Heihe River Basin (HRB) in an arid-to-semi-arid area of China.
