About the Authors

Wan-Ze Zhu

wzzhu@imde.ac.cn (WZZ); maihe.li@wsl.ch (MHL)

Affiliation Alpine Ecosystem Observation and Experiment Station of Gongga Mountain, Institute of Mountain Hazard and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China

Min Cao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, China

San-Gen Wang

Affiliation College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Wen-Fan Xiao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment, State Forestry Administration, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

Mai-He Li

wzzhu@imde.ac.cn (WZZ); maihe.li@wsl.ch (MHL)

Affiliations Tree Physiology Group, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZZ MHL. Performed the experiments: WZZ MC WFX SGW. Analyzed the data: WZZ MHL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SGW. Wrote the paper: WZZ MHL.