About the Authors

Jianjun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianjun Wang, Dongmei Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

Dongmei Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianjun Wang, Dongmei Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

Yong Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, Life Sciences College, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China

Ji Shen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

Christopher van der Gast

Affiliation National Environment Research Council (NERC) Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom

Martin W. Hahn

Affiliation Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondsee, Austria

Qinglong Wu

qlwu@niglas.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW QW. Performed the experiments: JW DY YZ QW. Analyzed the data: JW DY JS CvdG MWH QW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW QW. Wrote the paper: JW JS CvdG MWH QW.