Figure 6

Location of Qinghai Lake and the 24 survey sites. The nine important sites were marked with green rings. Maps were produced using ArcGIS (v 10.2, Esri, Redlands, CA, USA) with World Image (source: Esri, DigitalGlobe, GeoEye, Earthstar Geographics, CNES/Airbus DS, USGS, USDA, AeroGRID, IGN, and the GIS User Community) as background showing the boundary of Qinghai Lake.