doi: 10.18178/ijesd.2016.7.8.846
Impacts of Temperature Gradient on the Intensity of Physical Disturbance and the Water Ecological Biodiversity in the River Estuary
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Yanpeng Cai
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- the School of Environment, Beijing Normal
Abstract
In this study, the physical disturbance in the riverestuary was discussed as the variation of hydrodynamic fieldscaused by the human activities. We built the coupled model toforecast the ecological risk with physical disturbance in thedifferent condition of temperature gradient. The temperaturegradient was one of the most important parameters to report thegrowth circumstance of water ecological species, especially forthe biodiversity. The relationship between water temperaturegradient and the biodiversity was proposed by using the modelmethods. When the gradient was higher, the biodiversity indexwas increasing, which was considered as the optimal ecologicalsystem.
Keywords
- Temperature gradient
- physical disturbance
- biodiversity
- ecological risk
- river estuary
How to Cite
Yan Xu, Yanpeng Cai, Tao Sun, Wen Xu, and Zhifeng Yang, "Impacts of Temperature Gradient on the Intensity of Physical Disturbance and the Water Ecological Biodiversity in the River Estuary," International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 595-600, 2016. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijesd.2016.7.8.846
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