About the Authors

Nianpeng He

henp@igsnrr.ac.cn (NH); yugr@igsnrr.ac.cn (GY)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China

Qiang Yu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS, Shenyang, China, Department of Biology, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Ruomeng Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China

Yunhai Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, CAS, Beijing, China

Yang Gao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China

Guirui Yu

henp@igsnrr.ac.cn (NH); yugr@igsnrr.ac.cn (GY)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NH QY GY. Performed the experiments: NH RW YZ. Analyzed the data: NH YG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NH RW. Wrote the manuscript: NH.