About the Authors

Yong Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Zhang, Qiang Jia

Affiliations Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Qiang Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Zhang, Qiang Jia

Affiliation School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Herbert H. T. Prins

Affiliation Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Lei Cao

leicao@rcees.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academic of Sciences, Beijing, China

Willem Fred de Boer

Affiliation Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ HHTP LC WFD. Performed the experiments: YZ LC QJ. Analyzed the data: YZ QJ. Wrote the paper: YZ QJ WFD HHTP LC.