About the Authors

Yuxin Mao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Honglan Ji

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

honglanji@imau.edu.cn

Affiliations College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Comprehensive Management of Water Resources and Water Environment in Inner Mongolia of the Yellow River Basin, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, State Key Laboratory of Water Engineering Ecology and Environment in Arid Area, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Zhen Yang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.