About the Authors

Ren-Yi Ma

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jiao-Lin Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, China

Molly A. Cavaleri

Affiliation School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, United States of America

Frank Sterck

Affiliation Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Joeri S. Strijk

Affiliation Plant Ecophysiology and Evolution Group, State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, and College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China

Kun-Fang Cao

kunfangcao@gxu.edu.cn

Affiliation Plant Ecophysiology and Evolution Group, State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, and College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KFC RYM. Performed the experiments: RYM. Analyzed the data: RYM JLZ JSS. Wrote the paper: RYM JLZ MAC FS JSS KFC.