Windblown sediment transport and loss in a desert-oasis ecotone in the Tarim Basin

Huawei Pi1,2,3, Brenton Sharratt4, Jiaqiang Lei5

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang, 830011, China.

Scientific Reports
|August 12, 2017
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