Natural grasslands converted to afforested lands and abandoned lands decreasing soil carbon stability and storage, respectively, in the China’s Loess Plateau

• Yao Zhong,

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

  Affiliation College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4253-4020

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• Yumei Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yumei Li, Xuemao Zhao

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

  Affiliation College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China

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• Xuemao Zhao

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yumei Li, Xuemao Zhao

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zxmao2008@nwnu.edu.cn

  Affiliation College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China

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