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The authors thank Sheng Yaping), Dong Xiaogang, Ren Heng for vegetation sampling, materials collection and data processing of the Gansu data and Jiang Ping and Jia Hongtao for the summary of data from their work in Xinjiang.
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Cheng-Zhang, Z., Squires, V. (2010). Biodiversity of Plants and Animals in Mountain Ecosystems. In: Squires, V., Hua, L., Li, G., Zhang, D. (eds) Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in North-West China. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9622-7_6
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