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Guangdong Li1,2, Wei Qi3,4, Siao Sun5,6

  • 1Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. ligd@igsnrr.ac.cn.

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