Abstract
Accurate estimation of extinction depth of shallow groundwater (EDSG) and identification of its influence factors are important for sustainable management of groundwater resources, ecological protection, and human health in intensively irrigated region. In this study, the ratio of actual groundwater depth and EDSG (RAE) method was used to understand the spatial variability of EDSG in the Sanjiang Plain, one of China’s largest grain production bases and China’s largest inland freshwater wetland region. The study showed a large spatial variation of EDSG in the region. Spatially, the sites, which were in the northeast and center had the deepest and the shallowest EDSG, whereby, indicate that it has higher and lower pumping potential capacity. Many factors including climate, soil parameters, vegetation and topography affected the EDSG. We also identified an area of 3.86 × 1010 m2, which accounting for 35.3% of the entire Sanjiang Plain, has exceeded the ESGD by over exploited for years. Knowledge of the variation and influence factors of EDSG for a certain plant system and the current shallow groundwater condition in the higher latitude region can be a key to the development of preventive actions for large quantity pumping groundwater and protection regional and sustainable development of irrigated agriculture.
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This research was supported by the 1:50000 environmental geology survey of the urban planning region of the northern of the central plain urban agglomeration area (DD20160244). The National Key Research and Development Plan effectively utilized and optimized of surface water and groundwater in the fault basin (2016YFC0502502). Meteorological data were provided by the Chinese Meteorological Data Sharing Service System.
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Wang, X. The characteristic and influence factors of extinction depth of shallow groundwater on the high-latitude region: a case study on the Sanjiang Plain, northeast China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 25, 6695–6706 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-0983-1
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