About the Authors

Yan Geng

Affiliations Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

Yonghui Wang

Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China

Kuo Yang

Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China

Shaopeng Wang

Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China

Hui Zeng

Affiliations Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Circular Economy, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen, China

Frank Baumann

Affiliation Department of Geoscience, Physical Geography and Soil Science, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Peter Kuehn

Affiliation Department of Geoscience, Physical Geography and Soil Science, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Thomas Scholten

Affiliation Department of Geoscience, Physical Geography and Soil Science, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Jin-Sheng He

jshe@nwipb.cas.cn

Affiliations Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JSH. Performed the experiments: YG YHW KY FB PK. Analyzed the data: YG SW JSH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JSH FB HZ TS. Wrote the paper: JSH YG.