About the Authors

Eike Luedeling

eluedeling@ucdavis.edu (EL); mhzhang@ucdavis.edu (MZ)

Affiliations Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Minghua Zhang

eluedeling@ucdavis.edu (EL); mhzhang@ucdavis.edu (MZ)

Affiliation Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Evan H. Girvetz

Affiliation College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EL MZ. Performed the experiments: EL. Analyzed the data: EL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL EHG. Wrote the paper: EL.