About the Authors

En-Rong Yan

eryan@des.ecnu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Tiantong National Station of Forest Ecosystem, Chinese National Ecosystem Observation and Research Network, Ningbo, China

Xiao-Dong Yang

Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Tiantong National Station of Forest Ecosystem, Chinese National Ecosystem Observation and Research Network, Ningbo, China

Scott X. Chang

Affiliation Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Xi-Hua Wang

Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Tiantong National Station of Forest Ecosystem, Chinese National Ecosystem Observation and Research Network, Ningbo, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ERY SXC. Performed the experiments: ERY XHW. Analyzed the data: ERY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XDY ERY. Wrote the paper: ERY XDY SXC.