Gurbantünggüt

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Gurbantünggüt

  1. A desert that occupies a large part of the Junggar Basin in Northern Xinjiang, in the northwest of the People's Republic of China.
    Synonyms: Dzoosotoyn Elisen Desert, Gurbantünggüt Desert
    Holonym: Dzungaria
    • 2010, Yalikun Tashi, Philippe C. Chamard, Marie-Françoise Courel, Tashpolat Tiyip, Yiliminuer Tuerxun, Sam Drake, “The Recent Evolution of the Oasis Environment in the Taklimakan Desert, China”, in Graciela Schneier-Madanes, Marie-Françoise Courel, editors, Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions: Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Social Sciences‎, Springer, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52:
      The principal cities in the Junggar Basin are Urumqi, Shehezi, Ghulja, Karamay, Altay, and Changji, and the basin holds China's second largest desert, the Gurbantünggüt.
    • 2020, Grassland Ecosystems of China‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 447:
      In the Gurbantünggüt desert (44° 11'–46° 20'N, 84° 31'–90° 00'E) of Xinjiang, a study of algal populations growing on the soil surface of a desert rangeland dominated by Haloxylon persicum and H. ammodendron identified 121 algal species that belong to 49 genera, 21 families, and 4 phyla or subkingdoms (Cyanophyta, Chlorophyta, Bacillariophyta, and Euglenophyta each including 83, 20, 11, and 7 species, respectively (Zhang et al. 2005).

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