Changing Climate and Overgrazing Are Decimating Mongolian Steppes

• Yi Y. Liu ,

  * E-mail: yiliu001@gmail.com

  Affiliations Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Earth and Climate Cluster, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, CSIRO Land and Water, Black Mountain Laboratories, Canberra, Australia

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• Jason P. Evans,

  Affiliation Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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• Matthew F. McCabe,

  Affiliations Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Water Desalination and Reuse Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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• Richard A. M. de Jeu,

  Affiliation Earth and Climate Cluster, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Albert I. J. M. van Dijk,

  Affiliations CSIRO Land and Water, Black Mountain Laboratories, Canberra, Australia, Fenner School of Environment & Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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• Albertus J. Dolman,

  Affiliation Earth and Climate Cluster, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Izuru Saizen

  Affiliation Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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