After analyzing the regulation of overflow ecological water consumption in the Canmrik ecological area of mainstream zone
of the Tarim River, in this paper a model of ecological bifurcation is developed, the dynamic overflow process of ecological
bifurcation is simulated, and the quantitative relationships between the volume of ecological water consumption and the ecological
conservation extent and overflow time are analyzed using GIS, advance of freshet and RS means. The results reveal that the
effects of discharge and time of ecological bifurcation on the efficiency of ecological water consumption are significant,
there is a geometrical exponential relationship between the efficiency of ecological bifurcation and the water supply with
different discharges and different times under the same ecological water consumption, hypsography plays an important role
in ecological water consumption, the regulation of ecological water consumption cannot be equated with the ordinary farming
irrigation system, a serious water waste will result and the prospective ecological benefits will not be able to be achieved
if an ordinary ecological bifurcation is implemented. The efficiency of ecological water consumption can be increased by 30%
by selecting the bifurcation schemes in an optimized way, which is of the utmost importance for arid areas with shortage of
water resources.
Keywords continental river - ecological water consumption - artificial regulation - simulation analysis
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40571030) and the World Bank and China’s National
Key Project (Grant Nos. TTTQ-216 and TTTQ-218)