Abstract Arid Central Asia (ACA), with its diverse landscapes of high mountains, oases, and
deserts, hosted the central routes of the Silk Roads that linked trade centers from East Asia …

Abstract In comparison to Southwest Asia and the Indian subcontinent, the relationship
between Holocene river dynamics, climate change and floodwater farming in Central Asia is …

Long highly-resolved proxies for runoff are in high demand for hydrological forecasts and
water management in arid Central Asia. An accurate (R 2= 0.53) reconstruction of October …

This open access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late
Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty …

Lake Balkhash is a large and relatively shallow closed-basin lake in the arid part of Central
Asia. The lake experienced an ecological crisis in the 1970s and 1980s when the filling of …

The water level variations of the Lake Balkhash, the Kapshagay Reservoir and the Ili River
and the linkage with salinity and biological conditions are investigated in this work using …

Environmental changes in arid central Asia are prominently manifest through changes in the
water balance. Lake Balkhash, the largest lake in Kazakhstan, is a shallow lake situated in a …

Lake Balkhash is a large endorheic water body, the third largest by size in Eurasia and the
second largest salt lake of the world. With its half-moon elongated morphology and 78% of …

Lakes represent important ecosystems which are often biodiversity hotspots and important
habitats for aquatic organisms and migratory birds. They represent economic resources for …

As an important part of the global carbon pool, lake carbon is of great significance in the
global carbon cycle. Based on a study of the sedimentary proxies of Balkhash Lake, Central …