About the Authors

Qiong Gao

Affiliation Landscape Analysis and Modeling Group, National Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resources Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

Mei Yu

meiyu@ites.upr.edu

Affiliation Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Chan Zhou

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QG MY. Performed the experiments: QG MY CZ. Analyzed the data: QG MY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QG MY. Wrote the paper: QG MY.