About the Authors

Jine Quan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

Sheng Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

Chunxia Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

Sen Meng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

Zhong Zhao

zhaozh@nwsuaf.edu.cn (ZZ); xuxuexuan@nwsuaf.edu.cn (XXX)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

Xuexuan Xu

zhaozh@nwsuaf.edu.cn (ZZ); xuxuexuan@nwsuaf.edu.cn (XXX)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZZ XXX. Performed the experiments: JQ SM. Analyzed the data: JQ SZ CXZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JQ ZZ. Wrote the paper: JQ.