About the Authors

Feng Wang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, Department of Soil and Water Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Institute of Desertification, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

Véronique Letort

Affiliation Ecole Centrale of Paris, Department of Applied Mathematics, Chatenay-Malabry, France

Qi Lu

libg@cau.edu.cn (BL); luqi@caf.ac.cn (QL)

Affiliation Institute of Desertification, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

Xuefeng Bai

Affiliation Liaoning Sand Stabilisation and Afforestation Institute, Fuxin, China

Yan Guo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, Department of Soil and Water Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Philippe de Reffye

Affiliation CIRAD, UMR AMAP, Montpellier, France

Baoguo Li

libg@cau.edu.cn (BL); luqi@caf.ac.cn (QL)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, Department of Soil and Water Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FW YG BL QL. Performed the experiments: FW XB. Analyzed the data: FW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VL PdR. Wrote the paper: FW VL.