About the Authors

Zhuwen Xu

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

Shiqiang Wan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, College of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China

Haiyan Ren

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

Xingguo Han

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Mai-He Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, Forest dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Weixin Cheng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, Environmental Studies Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Yong Jiang

jiangyong@iae.ac.cn

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH SW YJ. Performed the experiments: ZX HR. Analyzed the data: ZX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZX HR MHL. Wrote the paper: ZX SW MHL WXC.