About the Authors

Gang Liang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Hua He

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, The Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Diqiu Yu

ydq@xtbg.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GL DY. Performed the experiments: GL HH. Analyzed the data: GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL. Wrote the paper: GL.