Assessing the naturalness of a restored coal mine area on the Loess Plateau, China

• Hong Yao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Yao, Jianjun Ma, Yongjun Fan

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

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation College of Life Science, Lang Fang Normal University, Lang fang, China

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• Jianjun Ma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Yao, Jianjun Ma, Yongjun Fan

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation College of Life Science, Lang Fang Normal University, Lang fang, China

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• Yongjun Fan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Yao, Jianjun Ma, Yongjun Fan

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Baotou Teacher’s college, Biological Science and Technology Institute, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2707-8356

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• Xiuli Chen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Baotou Teacher’s college, Biological Science and Technology Institute, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China

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• Meirong Tian

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tmr@nies.org

  Affiliation Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China, Nanjing, China

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