Species Richness Patterns and Water-Energy Dynamics in the Drylands of Northwest China

• Liping Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liping Li, Zhiheng Wang

  * E-mail: liliping@pku.edu.cn

  Affiliations Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China, Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

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• Zhiheng Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Liping Li, Zhiheng Wang

  Affiliation Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Stefan Zerbe,

  Affiliation Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

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• Nurbay Abdusalih,

  Affiliation College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China

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• Zhiyao Tang,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Ming Ma,

  Affiliation Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China

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• Linke Yin,

  Affiliation Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China

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• Anwar Mohammat,

  Affiliation Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China

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• Wenxuan Han,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Jingyun Fang

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China

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