About the Authors

Lei Deng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Zhou-Ping Shangguan

shangguan@ms.iswc.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Sandra Sweeney

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LD ZS. Analyzed the data: LD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LD. Wrote the paper: LD ZS SS.