About the Authors

Haibao Ren

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

Richard Condit

Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Republic of Panama

Bin Chen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

Xiangcheng Mi

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

Min Cao

Affiliation Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, P.R. China

Wanhui Ye

Affiliation South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China

Zhanqing Hao

Affiliation Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, P.R. China

Keping Ma

kpma@ibcas.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HR RC KM. Performed the experiments: HR RC BC XM MC WY ZH KM. Analyzed the data: HR RC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HR RC BC XM MC WY ZH KM. Wrote the paper: HR RC BC XM MC WY ZH KM.