About the Authors

Yuan Yuan Song

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Ecological Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Agroecology and Rural Environment of Guangdong Regular Higher Education Institutions, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Ecology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Ren Sen Zeng

rszeng@scau.edu.cn

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Ecological Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Agroecology and Rural Environment of Guangdong Regular Higher Education Institutions, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Ecology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Jian Feng Xu

Affiliation Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Ecology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Jun Li

Affiliation Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Ecology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Xiang Shen

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Ecological Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Agroecology and Rural Environment of Guangdong Regular Higher Education Institutions, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China, Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Ecology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Woldemariam Gebrehiwot Yihdego

Affiliation Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Ecology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YYS RSZ. Performed the experiments: YYS JFX JL XS WGY. Analyzed the data: YYS JL. Wrote the paper: YYS RSZ.