RESEARCH ARTICLE
Understanding Hydrological Process Change due to Re-Vegetation in a Mountainous Watershed of Northern China
Fan Zhou,
Shengping Wang,
Siyi Qu,
Wenxin Li,
Desheng Cai,
Qingfeng Hai,
Mengyao Ma,
Peter Strauss,
Zhiwei Wang,
Yi Ren,
Liping Zhang,
Fan Zhou
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Shengping Wang
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Correspondence:
Shengping Wang ([email protected])
Search for more papers by this authorSiyi Qu
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorWenxin Li
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorDesheng Cai
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorQingfeng Hai
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorMengyao Ma
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorPeter Strauss
Institute for Land and Water Management Research, Federal Agency for Water Management, Petzenkirchen, Austria
Search for more papers by this authorZhiwei Wang
Forestry and Grassland Office of Weichang County, Chengde, Hebei, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorYi Ren
Forestry and Grassland Office of Weichang County, Chengde, Hebei, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorLiping Zhang
Forestry and Grassland Office of Weichang County, Chengde, Hebei, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorFan Zhou,
Shengping Wang,
Siyi Qu,
Wenxin Li,
Desheng Cai,
Qingfeng Hai,
Mengyao Ma,
Peter Strauss,
Zhiwei Wang,
Yi Ren,
Liping Zhang,
Fan Zhou
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Shengping Wang
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Correspondence:
Shengping Wang ([email protected])
Search for more papers by this authorSiyi Qu
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorWenxin Li
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorDesheng Cai
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorQingfeng Hai
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorMengyao Ma
College of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorPeter Strauss
Institute for Land and Water Management Research, Federal Agency for Water Management, Petzenkirchen, Austria
Search for more papers by this authorZhiwei Wang
Forestry and Grassland Office of Weichang County, Chengde, Hebei, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorYi Ren
Forestry and Grassland Office of Weichang County, Chengde, Hebei, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorLiping Zhang
Forestry and Grassland Office of Weichang County, Chengde, Hebei, People's Republic of China
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 11 March 2025
Funding: The National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant Number: 2022YFF1302501-02).
ABSTRACT
Hydrological processes of mountainous watersheds commonly impact water resource supply in downstream areas. To better understand how re-vegetation affects the different hydrological pathways of watersheds, we investigated their change at various temporal scales for the Xiaoluan River watershed, a typical meso-scale watershed featuring a plateau–mountain transition topography in northern China. For the non-growing season from 2006 to 2020, the groundwater discharge of the watershed and the wetting of the watershed in terms of the Horton Index significantly increased, and the recession process in terms of the recession coefficient (k) was considerably prolonged. We suggest that re-vegetation and snowmelt were responsible for this change, but they affected the hydrological processes differently. That is, re-vegetation might improve the water storage capacity of the shallow soil layers of the watershed, thereby enhancing the capacity of groundwater recharge and discharge. Meanwhile, snowmelt may provide available water for recharging and discharging the watershed. Because reforestation progresses and global climate change continues, more complex hydrological processes are to be expected. Therefore, continuous monitoring and detailed investigations of subsurface hydrological processes will be necessary for adaptive watershed management.
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