Coupling Relations between Material and Information in Mountain-Basin System in Middle Asia

摘要

The system consisted of Tarim Basin and Tianshan and Kunlun mountains is a typical mountain-basin system in arid zone in middle Asia. Processes and models of material circulation, energy conversion and information transmission is controlled by some factors including geomorphologic features and particularity of caloricity, climate and hydrology as well as vegetation and soil. In addition, they also decide the macroscopically landscape pattern in the system. Mountainous area provides rich saccharoid for the basin, which is important parent material for oasis formation. Meanwhile, surface water and groundwater are transferred from mountainous area to the basin, which affects macroscopically patterns of natural oasis. Under the background of global changes, the correlation between material and information should be taken into account. Based on achievements of modern science and technology, variation characteristics and evolution tendency as well as sustainable development way of mountainous system ought to be studied in arid zone.