Abstract:

The ecology and environment monitoring system of the Three Gorges Project(TGP)is a transregional,transdepartmental,multidisciplinary,and comprehensive investigative monitoring network,established for monitoring the potential ecological and environmental problems caused by the TGP.Since it was established in 1996,in line with basic regulations,unified monitoring variables and standard operation protocols,the system had traced the whole ecology and environment conditions of the Three Gorges,accumulated abundant data for the environmental evaluation of the TGP.A series of achievements have been made by monitoring system.At the same time,it has made a positive and useful attempt and explore for integrated monitoring of the ecological environment of rivers and lakes in China.As the TGP step into its full operation period,the focus of the monitoring system synchronously shifted from the construction services for the engineering to the project operation phase.In this paper,we summarized the characteristics,achievements and exemplars of the monitoring system,and then pointed out the direction for the development of the monitoring system in the next stage