About the Authors

Shaofeng Pei

peishaofeng@gmail.com (SP); siyuanye@hotmail.com (SY)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Coastal Wetland Biogeosciences, China Geological Survey, Qingdao, China, Function Laboratory for Marine Geology, National Oceanography Laboratory, Qingdao, China

Edward A. Laws

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, School of the Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, United States of America

Haibo Zhang

Affiliation College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Siyuan Ye

peishaofeng@gmail.com (SP); siyuanye@hotmail.com (SY)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Coastal Wetland Biogeosciences, China Geological Survey, Qingdao, China

Hongming Yuan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Coastal Wetland Biogeosciences, China Geological Survey, Qingdao, China

Haiyue Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Coastal Wetland Biogeosciences, China Geological Survey, Qingdao, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SP EL. Data curation: SP HZ SY HY. Formal analysis: SP EL. Funding acquisition: SP SY. Investigation: SP HY HL. Methodology: SP EL. Project administration: SP SY. Resources: SP HY HL. Software: SP EL. Supervision: SP EL. Validation: SP EL. Visualization: SP EL. Writing – original draft: SP EL. Writing – review & editing: SP EL.