About the Authors

Rongjiang Yao

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China, Dongtai Institute of Tidal Flat Research, Nanjing Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dongtai, 224200, China

Jingsong Yang

jsyang@issas.ac.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China, Dongtai Institute of Tidal Flat Research, Nanjing Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dongtai, 224200, China

Danhua Wu

Affiliation Dongtai Institute of Tidal Flat Research, Nanjing Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dongtai, 224200, China

Wenping Xie

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China

Peng Gao

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, 709 Bull Street, Columbia, South Carolina, 29208, United States of America

Wenhui Jin

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJY JSY. Performed the experiments: RJY DHW WPX. Analyzed the data: RJY PG WHJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PG WHJ. Wrote the paper: RJY JSY PG.