About the Authors

Yali Si

siyali82@gmail.com

Affiliation Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, and Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Willem F. de Boer

Affiliation Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Peng Gong

Affiliation Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, and Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS. Analyzed the data: YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS WFdB PG. Wrote the paper: YS WFdB PG.