About the Authors

Guofang Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiufang Xie

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Duo Ye

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xuehua Ye

yexuehua@ibcas.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Indree Tuvshintogtokh

Affiliation Institute of Botany, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Bayart Mandakh

Affiliation Institute of Botany, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Zhenying Huang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Ming Dong

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD IT ZH. Performed the experiments: BM IT. Analyzed the data: GL XY DY MD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BM IT GL XY. Wrote the manuscript: GL XY. Manuscript revision: GL XX XY DY MD.