Title : Global desert expansion over the 21stcentury: patterns, predictors and signals
Running Head : Global desert expansion analysis from 2000 to 2019
Authors : Shuyao Wu1,2*, Laibao Liu3, Delong Li4, Wentao Zhang1,2, Kaidu Liu1,2, Jiashu Shen5,6, Linbo Zhang1,2*
Authors affiliations :
1 Center for Yellow River Ecosystem Products, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
2 Qingdao Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China
3 Department of Environmental System Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
4 School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
5 College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
6 Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
* Corresponding to :
wushuyao@email.sdu.edu.cn (Shuyao Wu)
zhanglb@sdu.edu.cn (Linbo Zhang)
Email addresses :
wushuyao@email.sdu.edu.cn (Shuyao Wu)
laibao.liu@env.ethz.ch (Laibao Liu)
lidl3@sustech.edu.cn (Delong Li)
zhangwt@sdu.edu.cn (Wentao Zhang)
liukaidi@sdu.edu.cn (Kaidi Liu)
jiashu_shen@pku.edu.cn (Jiashu Shen)
zhanglb@sdu.edu.cn (Linbo Zhang)