About the Authors

Da-Cang Huang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jin-Feng Wang

wangjf@Lreis.ac.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Ji-Xia Huang

Affiliation College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Daniel Z. Sui

Affiliation Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Hong-Yan Zhang

Affiliation School of Geographical Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China

Mao-Gui Hu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Cheng-Dong Xu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFW DZS DCH JXH. Performed the experiments: DCH JXH. Analyzed the data: DCH JXH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HYZ MGH CDX. Wrote the paper: DCH JFW DZS JXH.