About the Authors

Liping Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine (Peking Union Medical College), Ministry of Education, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Yining Liu

Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China

Xiangping Wang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Silviculture and Conservation of the Ministry of Education, College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Jingyun Fang

Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China

Qingchun Wang

Affiliation College of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Bengang Zhang

bgzhang@implad.ac.cn

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine (Peking Union Medical College), Ministry of Education, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, Xinjiang Institute of Chinese and Ethnic Medicine, Urumqi, China

Peigen Xiao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine (Peking Union Medical College), Ministry of Education, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Anwar Mohammat

Affiliation Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China

André Terwei

Affiliation Department for Ecological Interactions, German Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL JF BZ. Performed the experiments: LL YL AM. Analyzed the data: LL YL XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JF BZ PX QW XW. Wrote the paper: LL YL XW AT.