About the Authors

Xiujun Wang

wwang@essic.umd.edu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jiaping Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Juan Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XW JW. Performed the experiments: JW JZ. Analyzed the data: XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XW. Wrote the paper: XW.