About the Authors

Lin-Na Ma

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuquanlu, Beijing, China

Xiao-Tao Lü

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Yang Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Ji-Xun Guo

malinna27@gmail.com (RW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Nan-Yi Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Jian-Qin Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Ren-Zhong Wang

malinna27@gmail.com (RW)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J-XG R-ZW. Performed the experiments: L-NM YL N-YZ J-QY. Analyzed the data: L-NM X-TL. Wrote the paper: L-NM X-TL.