About the Authors

Rana Muhammad Amir Latif

Contributed equally to this work with: Rana Muhammad Amir Latif, Adnan Arshad

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Adnan Arshad

Contributed equally to this work with: Rana Muhammad Amir Latif, Adnan Arshad

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations State-Key Laboratory Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agroecosystem, China-Kazakhstan Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Grassland Ecological Restoration, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Engineering Research Center of Grassland Industry, Ministry of Education, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, Department of Climate-smart Agriculture, PODA-Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan

Jinliao He

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

jlhe@iud.ecnu.edu.cn (JH); aahmed83@uaeu.ac.ae (AA)

Affiliation The Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, Institute of Urban Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Tofeeq Ahmad

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Geosciences, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE, National Water and Energy Center, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE, Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan

Alaa Ahmed

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

jlhe@iud.ecnu.edu.cn (JH); aahmed83@uaeu.ac.ae (AA)

Affiliations Department of Geosciences, College of Science, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE, National Water and Energy Center, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.