About the Authors

Ning Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Sciences and Ecological Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, China

Rebecca T. Kimball

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Edward L. Braun

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Bin Liang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, China

Zhengwang Zhang

zzw@bnu.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Sciences and Ecological Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RTK ZZ. Performed the experiments: RTK NW. Analyzed the data: NW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ELB RTK ZZ. Wrote the paper: NW RTK ELB. Designed and made the figures: BL NW.