About the Authors

Jiangshan Lai

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Bo Yang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Dunmei Lin

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Andrew J. Kerkhoff

Affiliation Department of Biology and Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, United States of America

Keping Ma

kpma@ibcas.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KPM JSL. Performed the experiments: BY DML JSL. Analyzed the data: JSL AJK. Wrote the paper: JSL AJK KPM.