About the Authors

Guanghua Yin

Affiliation Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Jian Gu

Affiliation Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Fasheng Zhang

fasheng.zhang@yahoo.com

Affiliation Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Liang Hao

Affiliations Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Peifei Cong

Affiliations Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Zuoxin Liu

Affiliation Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GHY FSZ ZXL. Performed the experiments: GHY FSZ JG LH PFC. Analyzed the data: GHY FSZ JG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GHY FSZ. Wrote the paper: GHY FSZ.