About the Authors

Wenting Li

Affiliations Stata Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Binglin Xiong

Affiliations Stata Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Shiwen Wang

shiwenwang@nwsuaf.edu.cn

Affiliations Stata Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiping Deng

Affiliations Stata Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Lina Yin

Affiliations Stata Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hongbing Li

Affiliations Stata Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WTL BLX SWW. Performed the experiments: WTL BLX SWW. Analyzed the data: WTL SWW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SWW XPD LNY HBL. Wrote the paper: WTL SWW.