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Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China. Five main tributaries drain into the lake from the south, while the lake empties through a short outlet channel into the Yangtze River (see Fig. 1). Poyang is one of two lakes in the mid Yangtze Basin that has retained its free connection to the river. In addition, Poyang has a seasonal, reverse-flow system that occurs in most years where waters from the Yangtze River flow into Poyang Lake during part of the summer. This reverse-flow system greatly contributes to the complexity of Poyang’s yearly hydrological variation.
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Harris, J. (2016). Poyang Lake, Yangtze River Basin, China. In: Finlayson, C., Milton, G., Prentice, R., Davidson, N. (eds) The Wetland Book. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6173-5_34-2
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