About the Authors

Junfeng Niu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zhaozhong Feng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Weiwei Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Black Soil Ecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Ping Zhao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xiaoke Wang

wangxk@rcees.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFN ZZF. Performed the experiments: JFN WWZ. Analyzed the data: JFN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFN. Wrote the paper: JFN. Helpful suggestions in data analyses and manuscript preparation: XKW PZ.