AUTHOR=Bissenbayeva Sanim , Salmurzauly Ruslan , Tokbergenova Aigul , Zhengissova Nazym , Xing Jialuo TITLE=Assessment of degraded lands in the Ile-Balkhash region, Kazakhstan JOURNAL=Frontiers in Earth Science VOLUME=12 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2024.1453994 DOI=10.3389/feart.2024.1453994 ISSN=2296-6463