Environmental Earth Sciences

Volume 73 • Number 2 • January 2015

Thematic Issue: Sustainable Water Management in Central Asia

Guest Editors: Daniel Karthe • Sergey Chalov • Dietrich Borchardt

THEMATIC ISSUE Evapotranspiration and energy balance dynamics of a semi-arid mountainous steppe and shrubland Water resources and their management in central site in Northern Asia in the early twenty first century: status, S. Minderlein • L. Mcnzel 593 challenges and future prospects D. Karthe • S. Chalov • D. Borchardt 487 A three-component hydrograpli separation based on relationship between organic and inorganic component Analysis of changes in climate and river discharge concentrations: a case study in Eastern Siberia, Russia with focus on seasonal runoff predictability M.Y. Semenov • E.A. Zimnik 611 in the Aksu River Basin Z.W. Kundzewicz • B. Merz • S. Vorognshyn • Water storage possibilities in and in reservoirs H. Hartmann • D. Duethmann • M. Wortmann • impounded bv the dams of the River cascade Sh. Huang • B. Su • T. Jiang • V. Krvsanova 501 A. Jagus • M.A. Rz^tala • M. Rzetala 621

Development of agricultural land and water use Groundwater quality under stress: contaminants and its driving forces along the Aksu and Tarim River, in the Kharaa River basin (Mongolia) P.R.China J. Flofmann • V. Watson • B. Scharaw 629 T. Feike • Y. Mamitimin • L. Ei • R. Doluschitz 517 Investigating arsenic (As) occurrence and sources Eco-morphological response of lloodplain forests in ground, surface, waste and drinking water in (Populus euphratica Oliv.) to water diversion northern Mongolia in the lower Tarim River, northwest China M. Pfeiffer • Ci. Batbayar • J. Flofmann • K. Siegfried • T. Aishan • U. Malik • A. Kurban • B. Cyffka • D. Karthe • S. Flahn-Tomcr 649 M. Kuba • F. Betz • M. Kcyimu 533 Spatio-temporal variation of sediment transport in Desert riparian vegetation and groundwater in the River Basin, Mongolia and Russia the lower reaches of the Tarim River basin S.R. Chalov • J. Jarsjo • N.S. Kasimov • Y. Chen • W. Ei • C. Xu • Z. Ye • Y. Chen 547 A.O. Romanchcnko • J. Pietrori- J.Thorslund • E.V. Promakhova 663 Irrigation in the Tarim Basin, China: farmers' response to changes in water pricing practices IWRM in a country under rapid transition: lessons Y. Mamitimin • T. Feike • I. Seilert • R. Doluschitz 559 learnt from the Kharaa River Basin, Mongolia D. Karthe • S. Heidi • A. Houdret • D. Borchardt 681 Model for calculating suitable scales of oases in a continental river basin located in an extremely Impacts of agricultural land-use dynamics on erosion arid region. China risks and options for land and water management Y. Lei X. Li • FI. Ling 571 in Northern Mongolia J.A. Priess • C. Schweitzer • O. Balkhishig • The effect of subarctic conditions on water resources: T. Koschitzki • D. Wurbs 697 initial results and limitations of the SWAT model applied to the Kharaa River Basin in Northern Mongolia L. Hiilsmann • T. Gever • C. Schweitzer • I Priess • D. Karthe 581 Continuation on page A7

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Integrated urban water management: development Development scenarios on Hetao irrigation area of an adapted management approach (China): a qualitative analysis from social, economic R. Grit • L. Jorg • D. Steffen • O. Gerel 709 and ecological perspectives L. Kerschbaumer • J.F. Kobbing • K. Ott • S. Zerbe • A multi-scale assessment of human vulnerability N. Thevs 815 to climate change in the Aral Sea basin E. Lioubimtseva 719 Distribution of Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera assemblages in relation to environmental Water consumption of agriculture and natural ecosystems variables in headwater streams of Mongolia at the Amu Darya in Lebap Province, Turkmenistan D. Narangarvuu • J. Oyunbileg • P.-S. Yang • N.Thevs • K. Ovezmuradov • L.V. Zanjani • B. Boldgiv 835 S. Zerbe 731 Transformation of water management in Central Asia: Water quality, potential conflicts and solutions—an from State-centric, hydraulic mission to socio-political upstream-downstream analysis of the transnational control Zarafshan River (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan) I. Abdullaev • S. Rakhmatullaev 849 M. Groll • Chr. Opp • R. Kulmatov • M. Ikramova • I. Normatov 743 Problems of rural drinking water supply management in Central Kyrgyzstan: a case study from Kara-Suu Irrigation Management Transfer and WUAs' dynamics: village, Naryn Oblast evidence from the South-Kazakhstan Province K.T. Rost • G. Ratfelder • O. Topbaev 863 A. Zinzani 765 An overview of non-conventional water resource Potential distribution of invasive alien species in the utilization technologies for biological sand control upper Ili river basin: determination and mechanism in Xinjiang, northwest China of bioclimatic variables under climate change S. Li • Q. Tang • J. Lei • X. Xu • J. Jiang • Y. Wang 873 Z.Xu 779 Current legal challenges to institutional governance Evaluation of large-scale precipitation data sets of transboundary water resources in Central Asia for water resources modelling in Central Asia and joint management arrangements M. Malsy • T. aus der Beek • M. Florke 787 B. Janusz-Pawletta 887 Natural hazards versus climate change and their The dimension of water in Central Asia: security potential impacts in the dry, northern Himalayas: concerns and the long road of capacity building focus on the upper Kali Gandaki (Mustang District, B. Abdolvand • L. Mez • K. Winter • S. Mirsaeedi-GloBner • Nepal) B. Schutt • K.T. Rost • J. Bar 897 M. Fort 801 (Contents Continued)

INTERNATIONAL VIEW POINT AND NEWS Limnogeology, news in brief M.R. Rosen • E. Gierlowski-Kordesch 913

REVIEWS ON BOOKS AND MEDIA Howden N, Mather J (eds): History of hydrogeology P.Li 919