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A View from Space on Poyang Lake: What We Can Already See and What It Means

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Coming from the Hindu-Kush Himalaya, the Yangtze River feeds the largest freshwater lake in China: The Poyang Lake. This lake is known to fluctuate in its size and other metrics across months, seasons and years. However, recent years have resulted into large drying events. Likely, those trends are in direct response to water irrigation, climate change and dams like the Three Gorge Dam. This study describes this ecosystem of international importance, and how it can be better monitored and assessed with in situ data, as well as with various remote sensing techniques.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the State Key Program of National Natural Science of China (41430855), the Key Project of Water Resources Department of Jiangxi Province (KT201506), and the 973 Program of National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB417003). We sincerely thank Prof. Jiquan Chen for his recommendation of our work, and Prof. Falk Huettmann for his constructive comments on the chapter and revision to the early manuscript.

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Liu, Y., Wu, G. (2020). A View from Space on Poyang Lake: What We Can Already See and What It Means. In: Regmi, G., Huettmann, F. (eds) Hindu Kush-Himalaya Watersheds Downhill: Landscape Ecology and Conservation Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36275-1_5

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