About the Authors

Limei Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China

Longhui Li

lhli@ms.xjb.ac.cn (LHL); tianxin@caf.ac.cn (XT)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China

Xi Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China

Xin Tian

lhli@ms.xjb.ac.cn (LHL); tianxin@caf.ac.cn (XT)

Affiliation Institute of Forest Information Resource Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

Xiaoke Wang

Affiliation Beijing Urban Ecosystem Research Station, State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Geping Luo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LHL. Performed the experiments: LMW XT. Analyzed the data: LMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XKW XC GPL. Wrote the paper: LHL XC GPL LMW. Compiled and formatted the data: LHL LMW.