In semi-arid regions,air temperatures have increased in the last decades more than in many other parts of the world.Mongolia has an arid/semi-arid climate and much of the population are herders whose livelihoods depen...In semi-arid regions,air temperatures have increased in the last decades more than in many other parts of the world.Mongolia has an arid/semi-arid climate and much of the population are herders whose livelihoods depend upon limited water resources that fluctuate with a variable climate.Herders were surveyed to identify their observations of changes in climate extremes for two soums of central Mongolia,Ikh-Tamir in the forest steppe north of the Khangai Mountains and Jinst in the desert steppe south of the mountains.The herders’indigenous knowledge of changes in climate extremes mostly aligned with the station-based analyses of change.Temperatures were warming with more warm days and nights at all stations.There were fewer cool days and nights observed at the mountain stations both in the summer and winter,yet more cool days and nights were observed in the winter at the desert steppe station.The number of summer days is increasing while the number of frost days is decreasing at all stations.The results of this study support further use of local knowledge and meteorological observations to provide more holistic analysis of climate change in different regions of the world.展开更多
1 Introduction As the human population grows,the livelihoods and well-being of a significant portion of humanity will depend even more on the ability of freshwater ecosystems to provide essential services(Vör...1 Introduction As the human population grows,the livelihoods and well-being of a significant portion of humanity will depend even more on the ability of freshwater ecosystems to provide essential services(Vörösmarty et al.,2010),which will require the maintenance of biodiversity in these freshwater systems(Dudgeon et al.,2006).There are many competing demands on the available water resources,such as potable water,fish and wildlife habitat,agriculture,industrial use,and recreation,that are driven by different sectors;even within a specific sector there can be diverging interests.For example,water management of the Upper Arkansas River in Colorado has been mandated by the 1949 Arkansas River Compact between the US states of Colorado and Kansas which has led to stream-aquifer issues(Taylor and Luckey,1974),water transfers from agriculture to urban(Howe et al.,1990),and competing recreational uses(Wollmuth et al.,1985;Arkansas Basin Roundtable,2017).The recent Upper Arkansas Voluntary Flow Management Program tries to balance many users,including recreation by kayakers and rafters who want to maintain streamflow(at the Wellsville gauge)at or greater than 20 m3/s as well as anglers who want lower flows in the range of 7 to 11 m3/s to maintain fish habitat(Arkansas Basin Roundtable,2017).展开更多
基金the National Science Foundation Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems(CNH)Program(award BCS-1011801 entitled Does Community-Based Rangeland Ecosystem Management Increase Coupled Systems'Resilience to Climate Change in Mongolia?).
文摘In semi-arid regions,air temperatures have increased in the last decades more than in many other parts of the world.Mongolia has an arid/semi-arid climate and much of the population are herders whose livelihoods depend upon limited water resources that fluctuate with a variable climate.Herders were surveyed to identify their observations of changes in climate extremes for two soums of central Mongolia,Ikh-Tamir in the forest steppe north of the Khangai Mountains and Jinst in the desert steppe south of the mountains.The herders’indigenous knowledge of changes in climate extremes mostly aligned with the station-based analyses of change.Temperatures were warming with more warm days and nights at all stations.There were fewer cool days and nights observed at the mountain stations both in the summer and winter,yet more cool days and nights were observed in the winter at the desert steppe station.The number of summer days is increasing while the number of frost days is decreasing at all stations.The results of this study support further use of local knowledge and meteorological observations to provide more holistic analysis of climate change in different regions of the world.
文摘1 Introduction As the human population grows,the livelihoods and well-being of a significant portion of humanity will depend even more on the ability of freshwater ecosystems to provide essential services(Vörösmarty et al.,2010),which will require the maintenance of biodiversity in these freshwater systems(Dudgeon et al.,2006).There are many competing demands on the available water resources,such as potable water,fish and wildlife habitat,agriculture,industrial use,and recreation,that are driven by different sectors;even within a specific sector there can be diverging interests.For example,water management of the Upper Arkansas River in Colorado has been mandated by the 1949 Arkansas River Compact between the US states of Colorado and Kansas which has led to stream-aquifer issues(Taylor and Luckey,1974),water transfers from agriculture to urban(Howe et al.,1990),and competing recreational uses(Wollmuth et al.,1985;Arkansas Basin Roundtable,2017).The recent Upper Arkansas Voluntary Flow Management Program tries to balance many users,including recreation by kayakers and rafters who want to maintain streamflow(at the Wellsville gauge)at or greater than 20 m3/s as well as anglers who want lower flows in the range of 7 to 11 m3/s to maintain fish habitat(Arkansas Basin Roundtable,2017).
