About the Authors

Lei Liu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tao Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Frank S. Gilliam

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Per Gundersen

Affiliation Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Hao Chen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Jiangming Mo

mojm@scib.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMM LL PG FSG. Performed the experiments: LL TZ WZ HC. Analyzed the data: LL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL HC. Wrote the paper: LL.