The impacts of climate variability and agricultural expansion on ecosystem functions in Xinjiang drylands

Climate variability and agricultural expansion are fundamentally reshaping ecosystem functions (EFs) in drylands. Xinjiang Region, a vast and typical dryland area in China, also faces dual pressures of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Numerous local studies in Xinjiang have quantified individual EFs using biophysical models. However, research remains limited on the region-wide spatial distribution of long-term EF transitions, and on how nature-human interactions shape EF transitions acros