Reply to Gao et al. and Xu: Greening the Taklamakan: Human efforts to convert desert into a carbon sink.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 2026 · PMC13291519 · PMID 42284295

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Correspondingly, MODIS NDVI in summer exhibits a positive trend of 10.4 × 10 –4 ± 1.6 × 10 –4 per year, which is greater than that of the deseasonalized NDVI.

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