What are the regulating functions of lakes?

Lakes have many functions, such as regulating river runoff, developing irrigation, providing industrial and drinking water sources, cultivating aquatic organisms, communicating and shipping, improving regional ecological environment, and developing minerals.

It plays an important role in the development of national economy. At the same time, lakes and their watersheds are important places for human survival, and lakes themselves are very sensitive to global changes.

In this complex and huge system of man and nature, the lake is the joint point of interaction between the layers of the earth's surface system and an important part of the terrestrial hydrosphere. It is closely related to biosphere, atmosphere and lithosphere, and has special functions of regulating regional climate, recording regional environmental changes, maintaining regional ecosystem balance and multiplying biodiversity.

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The distribution of lakes in China is divided into Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Lake Area, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau Lake Area, Mengxin and Loess Plateau Lake Area, Northeast Plain and Mountain Lake Area, East Plain Lake Area and Southeast Hilly Lake Area.

The number of natural lakes with an area of 10 square kilometer in China has been reduced from 656 in China Lake Records to 58 1 one, and the total area has been reduced from 8525694 square kilometers to 6867 158 square kilometers. Of the 58 natural lakes with an area of 1000 square kilometers, there are 1 1 with an area of 1000 square kilometers, with a total area of 22,598 square kilometers, accounting for 32.9% of the total area.

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