Recent global warming as a proximate cause of deforestation and forest degradation in northern Pakistan

• Saif Ullah,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Economics & Management, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

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• Nizami Moazzam Syed,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Forestry & Wildlife, Management, University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3223-9687

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• Tian Gang ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tiangang_nefu@126.com (TG); ssareerdir@yahoo.com (SA)

  Affiliation College of Economics & Management, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

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• Rana Shahzad Noor,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Agriculture, Biological, Environment and Energy Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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• Sarir Ahmad ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tiangang_nefu@126.com (TG); ssareerdir@yahoo.com (SA)

  Affiliation Department of Forestry & Wildlife, Management, University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2856-1569

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• Muhammad Mohsin Waqas,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Engineering, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan

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• Adnan Noor Shah,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Engineering, Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0040-0253

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• Sami Ullah

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9669-5737

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