About the Authors

Guoyu Lan

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, P. R. China, Rubber Research Institute, The Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Danzhou City, Hainan Province, P. R. China

Stephan Getzin

Affiliation Department of Ecological Modelling, UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

Thorsten Wiegand

Affiliation Department of Ecological Modelling, UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

Yuehua Hu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, P. R. China

Guishui Xie

Affiliation Rubber Research Institute, The Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Danzhou City, Hainan Province, P. R. China

Hua Zhu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, P. R. China

Min Cao

caom@xtbg.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: G-YL SG TW MC. Performed the experiments: G-YL Y-HH G-SX HZ. Analyzed the data: G-YL Y-HH SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TW. Wrote the paper: G-YL SG TW MC.