About the Authors

Mingxu Zhao

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, World Agroforestry Centre, East Asia Office, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Nalaka Geekiyanage

Affiliations Laboratory of Tropical Forest Resources and Environments, Division of Forest and Biomaterial Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

Jianchu Xu

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, World Agroforestry Centre, East Asia Office, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Myo Myo Khin

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Yangon, Myanmar

Dian Ridwan Nurdiana

Affiliation Cibodas Botanic Garden, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia

Ekananda Paudel

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, World Agroforestry Centre, East Asia Office, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Rhett Daniel Harrison

r.harrison@cgiar.org

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, World Agroforestry Centre, East Asia Office, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MZ NG JX MMK DRN EP RH. Performed the experiments: MZ NG JX MMK DRN EP RH. Analyzed the data: MZ NG RH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MZ NG RH. Wrote the paper: MZ NG RH.