2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Physical Processes of Land Degradation and Changes of Land Resources Use by Agro-Pastoralists in the Inner Mongolia, China
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20401005
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Area studies
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SEKINE Ryohei 東北大学, 大学院・環境科学研究科, 助教 (90333781)
SAKAIDA Kiyotaka 東北大学, 大学院・環境科学研究科, 教授 (10133927)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
SAIJO Kiyoshi 宮城教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (00241513)
KOGANEZAWA Takaaki 宮城教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (70153517)
HIRAFUKI Yoshihiko 東北学院大学, 教養学部, 教授 (50143045)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 中国 / 内蒙古自治区 / 土地条件劣化 / 沙漠化 / 環境地理学 |
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| Research Abstract |
In the Wuchuan County, the middle part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, it is clarified that maximum gully erosion rate estimated to 25-115 cm/yr during 2003-2010 due to our observation. The gullies in this area continue to form since the middle Holocene. On the eastern margin of the Ulan Buh desert, Western Inner Mongolia, the amount of sand dune migration attains more than 1, 500～2, 800 m since ca. 8 ka, especially 1～10 m/yr in the past five decades. Under such physical environment, local farmers intensively engaged in sunflower cropping in unsustainable consciousness. We also made clear the part of desertification processes of the Hunshandake Desert, from the analysis of NDVI-value change during the recent years.
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