About the Authors

Chaoxu Zeng

Affiliations Lhasa Plateau Ecosystem Research Station, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modelling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jianshuang Wu

wujs.07s@igsnrr.ac.cn

Affiliations Lhasa Plateau Ecosystem Research Station, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modelling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Functional Biodiversity, Dahlem Center of Plant Sciences, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Xianzhou Zhang

Affiliation Lhasa Plateau Ecosystem Research Station, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modelling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JSW XZZ. Performed the experiments: JSW CXZ. Analyzed the data: JSW CXZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JSW XZZ. Wrote the paper: CXZ JSW.