1. State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐ecosystems School of Life Sciences Lanzhou University Lanzhou China
2. Desert Animal Adaptations and Husbandry Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research Ben‐Gurion University of Negev Beer Sheva Israel
3. Rangeland Research Institute National Agricultural Research Center Islamabad Pakistan
4. UK Biochar Research Centre School of Geosciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK
5. Department of Agricultural Soil Science Department of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems University of Gottingen Gottingen Germany
6. Agro‐Technological Institute RUDN University Moscow Russia
7. Institute of Environmental Sciences Kazan Federal University Kazan Russia
8. State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro‐Ecosystems Institute of Innovation Ecology & College of Life Sciences Lanzhou University Lanzhou China
9. Urat Desert‐grassland Research Station Northwest Institute of Eco‐Environment and ResourcesChinese Academy of Sciences Lanzhou China
10. Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Restoration Ecology of Cold Area Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology Chinese Academy of Science Xining China