About the Authors

Chunyu Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunyu Zhang, Yanbo Wei

zcy_0520@163.com

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Forest Resources and Ecosystem Processes of Beijing, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Yanbo Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Chunyu Zhang, Yanbo Wei

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Forest Resources and Ecosystem Processes of Beijing, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Xiuhai Zhao

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Forest Resources and Ecosystem Processes of Beijing, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Klaus von Gadow

Affiliation Faculty of Forestry and Forest Ecology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ. Performed the experiments: CZ KG. Analyzed the data: CZ KG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CZ. Wrote the paper: CZ YW KG XZ.