About the Authors

Chengcheng Gang

Affiliation Global Change Research Institute, School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing,Jiangsu, P. R. China

Wei Zhou

Affiliation Global Change Research Institute, School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing,Jiangsu, P. R. China

Jianlong Li

jlli2008@nju.edu.cn

Affiliation Global Change Research Institute, School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing,Jiangsu, P. R. China

Yizhao Chen

Affiliation Global Change Research Institute, School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing,Jiangsu, P. R. China

Shaojie Mu

Affiliation Global Change Research Institute, School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing,Jiangsu, P. R. China

Jizhou Ren

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China

Jingming Chen

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pavel Ya. Groisman

Affiliation NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CCG. Performed the experiments: WZ JLL. Analyzed the data: YZC SJM. Wrote the paper: CCG. Contributed to design of the experiments: WZ JLL. Collected the data: YZC SJM. Provided suggestions about improving the materials and methods: JZR. Provided suggestions about data analysis and helped with improving the writing of the paper: JMC PYG.