About the Authors

Miaogen Shen

shen.miaogen@gmail.com (MS); zhangg@itpcas.ac.cn (GZ)

Affiliations Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China, Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Japan

Yanhong Tang

Affiliation Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Japan

Jin Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Xi Yang

Affiliation Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Cong Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Xiaoyong Cui

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yongping Yang

Affiliation Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

Lijian Han

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Le Li

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

Jianhui Du

Affiliation School of Geographical Science and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Gengxin Zhang

shen.miaogen@gmail.com (MS); zhangg@itpcas.ac.cn (GZ)

Affiliation Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

Nan Cong

Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS YT CJ. Performed the experiments: MS. Analyzed the data: MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS. Wrote the paper: MS YT JC XY CW XC YY LH LL JD GZ NC.