About the Authors

Yongcui Deng

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment of the Ministry of Education, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Xiaoyong Cui

Affiliation University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Marcela Hernández

Affiliation Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Marc G. Dumont

dumont@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Affiliation Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YD XC MGD. Performed the experiments: YD. Analyzed the data: YD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YD XC MH MGD. Wrote the paper: YD MGD.