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Fresh water area in global surface is less than 1 % in the area of global land. Human are connected to freshwater ecosystems closely, but also affects the freshwater ecosystems. Water ecological degradation of river basin becomes the main problems of the current global water ecosystem. River basin water ecological management and quality management of water environment are the basis of water environment management. Ecological water requirement is brought up under the background of ecosystem degradation caused by extrusion ecological water from water resources development and utilization of activity. Configuration of ecological water requirement study will be integrated with the mechanism research and model research in future, forming a complete organic research system. The response between ecological process and hydrological processes is an important part of ecological hydrology study in arid areas. We carry out dual research of the management of water resources in arid areas from the macro-scale and micro-scale level. Saline-alkali land management and development has always been the hot spot of the domestic and foreign research theory and method innovation, and it is the important content of saline-alkali land management development. Minjiang river basin is an important large-scale, complex ecological transition zone, and the complexity of the natural environment, the borderline of economic development and social cultural transition are typical in china. Hydrologic cycle of forest ecosystem dynamics model and coupling of multiple scale water circulation regulation theory has not yet been established, deforestation, and the effects of climate change on river basin ecological hydrology is yet to be evaluated.

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  1. Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China

    Wei Meng, Yuan Zhang & Weijing Kong

  2. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Qingwen Min & Wenjun Jiao

  3. State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China

    Yaning Chen & Honghua Zhou

  4. Center for Agricultural Water Research in China, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China

    Shaozhong Kang, Ling Tong & Xinmei Hao

  5. Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, 100091, China

    Shirong Liu

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Meng, W. et al. (2015). Water Management. In: Li, W. (eds) Contemporary Ecology Research in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48376-3_9

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