About the Authors

Nan Xia

Contributed equally to this work with: Nan Xia, Wenyue Hai

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Geographical Science, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, The People’s Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, The People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Smart City and Environment Modelling of Higher Education Institute, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, The People’s Republic of China

Wenyue Hai

Contributed equally to this work with: Nan Xia, Wenyue Hai

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

hwy6857@163.com

Affiliations College of Geographical Science, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, The People’s Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, The People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Smart City and Environment Modelling of Higher Education Institute, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, The People’s Republic of China

Gimei Song

Roles Investigation, Software, Supervision, Validation

‡ GS and MT also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations College of Geographical Science, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, The People’s Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, The People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Smart City and Environment Modelling of Higher Education Institute, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, The People’s Republic of China

Mengying Tang

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation

‡ GS and MT also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations College of Geographical Science, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, The People’s Republic of China, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, The People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Smart City and Environment Modelling of Higher Education Institute, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, The People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.