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Can the combining of wetlands with reservoir operation reduce the risk of future floods and droughts?
Yanfeng Wu
Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130102, China
Jingxuan Sun
Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130102, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Boting Hu
Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130102, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Y. Jun Xu
School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University
Agricultural Center, 227 Highland Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Alain N. Rousseau
INRS-ETE/Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Eau Terre Environnement, 490 rue de la Couronne, G1K 9A9 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130102, China
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Short summary
Reservoirs and wetlands are important regulators of watershed hydrology, which should be considered when projecting floods and droughts. We first coupled wetlands and reservoir operations into a semi-spatially-explicit hydrological model and then applied it in a case study involving a large river basin in northeast China. We found that, overall, the risk of future floods and droughts will increase further even under the combined influence of reservoirs and wetlands.
Reservoirs and wetlands are important regulators of watershed hydrology, which should be...
