About the Authors

Xin Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Zhang, Miao-Miao Shi

Affiliations School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Tiantong National Observation Station for Forest Ecosystems, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, South China Botanical Garden, China Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Miao-Miao Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Zhang, Miao-Miao Shi

Affiliations School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Tiantong National Observation Station for Forest Ecosystems, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

Dong-Wei Shen

Affiliation School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Tiantong National Observation Station for Forest Ecosystems, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Xiao-Yong Chen

xychen@des.ecnu.edu.cn

Affiliation School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Tiantong National Observation Station for Forest Ecosystems, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ MMS XYC. Performed the experiments: XZ MMS DWS. Analyzed the data: XYC XZ MMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XYC. Wrote the paper: XYC MMS.