About the Authors

Cai-Hong Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Cai-Hong Li, Tian-Zuo Wang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China

Tian-Zuo Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Cai-Hong Li, Tian-Zuo Wang

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

Yong Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China

Yan-Hai Zheng

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

Gao-Ming Jiang

jgm@ibcas.ac.cn

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CHL TZW GMJ. Performed the experiments: CHL TZW. Analyzed the data: CHL TZW YL YHZ GMJ. Wrote the paper: CHL TZW GMJ.