Figure 1.
The panel a map gives China with southern Xinjiang marked, then gives southern Xinjiang with labelled prefectures and Hami City, with scale bars from 0 to 1400 kilometres and 0 to 400 kilometres. Panel b gives the topography of southern Xinjiang, with labels for the Tianshan Mountains, Kunlun Mountains, Taklimakan Desert, and Kumtag Desert, and a scale bar from 0 to 360 kilometres. Panel c gives desert distribution across southern Xinjiang, with categories for flowing desert, semi-mobile desert, semi-fixed desert, fixed desert, Gobi, and salt lick. It also labels the Tianshan Mountains and Kunlun Mountains, with a scale bar from 0 to 200 kilometres.Study area. (a) Location indication of Xinjiang in China. (b) Location indication of southern Xinjiang. (c) Desert map of southern Xinjiang