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Lakes in Arid Regions of Northwest China

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Hydrology and Limnology of Central Asia

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There are about more than 700 lakes in arid areas of northwest of China, and they are mainly distributed in Xinjiang. There are 29 lakes with size more than 10 km2, of which three lakes are distributed in both inside and outside the boundary of Inner Mongolia, and rest 26 lakes all located in Xinjiang.

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Authors and Affiliations

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

    Jilili Abuduwaili & Gulnura Issanova

  2. Faculty of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

    Gulnura Issanova

  3. Research Centre of Ecology and Environment of Central Asia (Almaty), Almaty, Kazakhstan

    Jilili Abuduwaili & Gulnura Issanova

  4. Research Centre of Ecology and Environment of Central Asia (Almaty), U.U. Uspanov Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Almaty, Kazakhstan

    Galymzhan Saparov

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Abuduwaili, J., Issanova, G., Saparov, G. (2019). Lakes in Arid Regions of Northwest China. In: Hydrology and Limnology of Central Asia. Water Resources Development and Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0929-8_12

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