Discussion of an environmental depletion assessment method–A case study in Xinjiang, China

• Zhiping Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiping Zhang, Fuqiang Xia

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Fuqiang Xia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhiping Zhang, Fuqiang Xia

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Validation

  * E-mail: xiafq@ms.xjb.ac.cn (FX); dgyang@ms.xjb.ac.cn (DY)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5728-9923

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• Degang Yang ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xiafq@ms.xjb.ac.cn (FX); dgyang@ms.xjb.ac.cn (DY)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Yaning Chen

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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