Effects of the ephemeral stream on plant species diversity and distribution in an alluvial fan of arid desert region: An application of a low altitude UAV

• Xiao-Dong Yang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xjyangxd@sina.com

  Affiliations Institute of Resources and Environment Science, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China, Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, Urumqi, China, Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), The University of Newcastle (UON), Newcastle, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3553-2125

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• Juan Wang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations College of Water Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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• Ming-Shan Xu,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

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• Arshad Ali,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Spatial Ecology Lab, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Yilu Xu,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), The University of Newcastle (UON), Newcastle, Australia

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• Dane Lamb,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), The University of Newcastle (UON), Newcastle, Australia

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• Lu-Chun Duan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), The University of Newcastle (UON), Newcastle, Australia

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• Kai-Hong Yan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), The University of Newcastle (UON), Newcastle, Australia

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• Sheng-Tian Yang

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations College of Water Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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