About the Authors

Zahid Hussain

Roles Writing – original draft

drzahid@cuiatd.edu.pk (ZH); 1290992119@qq.com (TC)

Current address: Department of Development Studies, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan

Affiliation Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pollution Process and Management of Plateau-Lake -Watershed, Yunnan Research Academy of Eco-Environmental Sciences, Kunming, China

Tang Cheng

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

drzahid@cuiatd.edu.pk (ZH); 1290992119@qq.com (TC)

Affiliation Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pollution Process and Management of Plateau-Lake -Watershed, Yunnan Research Academy of Eco-Environmental Sciences, Kunming, China

Muhammad Irshad

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, CUI, Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, Pakistan

Riaz Ahmed Khattak

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Brains Institute, Peshawar, Pakistan

Chen Yao

Roles Software

Affiliation Yunnan Infrastructure Investment Co. Ltd., Kunming, China

Di Song

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Yunnan Key Laboratory of Pollution Process and Management of Plateau-Lake -Watershed, Yunnan Research Academy of Eco-Environmental Sciences, Kunming, China

Muhammad Mohiuddin

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Kohsar University, Murree, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.