Increasing proportion of mildly aged population in rural mitigates farmland abandonment in the farming-pastoral ecotone of northern China

• Yuling Jin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Guoliang Zhang,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Jinan Academy of Social Sciences, Jinan, China

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• Xin Chen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Loess Plateau, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China

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• Yi Zhou,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation School of Geographical Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

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• Yukai Wei,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Shandong Territorial Spatial Planning Institute, Jinan, China

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• Sicheng Mao,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Bank of Communications Co., Ltd. Shaanxi Branch, Xi’an, China

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• Haile Zhao,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Wenting Liu,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Zhihua Pan,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation College of Resources and Environmental Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

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• Pingli An

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  * E-mail: anpl@cau.edu.cn

  Affiliation College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8783-562X

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