Empirical and model-based estimates of spatial and temporal variations in net primary productivity in semi-arid grasslands of Northern China

• Shengwei Zhang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China, Centre for Carbon, Water and Food, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9153-4398

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• Rui Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

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

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• Tingxi Liu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  * E-mail: txliu1966@163.com

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

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• Xin Song,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

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• Mark A. Adams

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Science Engineering and Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

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