About the Authors

Zheng Wang

wang.zheng@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

R. Henrik Nilsson

Affiliations Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden, Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Francesc Lopez-Giraldez

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Wen-ying Zhuang

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

Yu-cheng Dai

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Peter R. Johnston

Affiliation Herbarium PDD, Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand

Jeffrey P. Townsend

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZW JPT. Performed the experiments: ZW FLG. Analyzed the data: ZW RHN FLG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RHN FLG WZ YD PRJ. Wrote the paper: ZW RHN WZ PRJ JPT.