**Acknowledgements**

This work was entirely supported by UNDESERT project (EU FP7 243906), "Understanding and combating desertification to mitigate its impact on ecosystem services" funded by the European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, Environment Programme for financial support. The main goal of the project was to raise the understanding of how degradation and desertification processes affect biodiversity, soil and human livelihoods.

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