About the Authors

Syed Moazzam Nizami

moazzam@xtbg.org.cn (SMZ); yipingzh@xtbg.ac.cn (ZY)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS Menglun Yunnan 666303, China, Faculty of Forestry, Range Management & Wildlife, Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi 46300, Pakistan

Zhang Yiping

moazzam@xtbg.org.cn (SMZ); yipingzh@xtbg.ac.cn (ZY)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS Menglun Yunnan 666303, China

Sha Liqing

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS Menglun Yunnan 666303, China

Wei Zhao

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS Menglun Yunnan 666303, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Xiang Zhang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS Menglun Yunnan 666303, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMN ZY. Performed the experiments: SMN WZ XZ. Analyzed the data: SMN SL ZY WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMN ZY SL XZ. Wrote the paper: SMN ZY SL.