About the Authors

Andrea Seim

andrea.seim@gvc.gu.se

Affiliation Regional Climate Group, Department of Earth Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Gulzar Omurova

Affiliations Central-Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences (CAIAG), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz National Agrarian University (KNAU), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Erlan Azisov

Affiliation Central-Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences (CAIAG), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Kanaat Musuraliev

Affiliations Kyrgyz National Agrarian University (KNAU), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Innovation Center of Phytotechnologies, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Kumar Aliev

Affiliation University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Timur Tulyaganov

Affiliation Republican Scientific Production Centre for Decorative Gardening and Forestry, (RSPCDGF), Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Lyutsian Nikolyai

Affiliation Republican Scientific Production Centre for Decorative Gardening and Forestry, (RSPCDGF), Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Evgeniy Botman

Affiliation Republican Scientific Production Centre for Decorative Gardening and Forestry, (RSPCDGF), Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Gerd Helle

Affiliation German Centre for Geosciences, Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Isabel Dorado Liñan

Affiliation Forest Research Centre, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CIFOR), Madrid, Spain

Sandra Jivcov

Affiliation Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Hans W. Linderholm

Affiliation Regional Climate Group, Department of Earth Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS. Performed the experiments: AS. Analyzed the data: AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GO EA KM KA TT LN EB GH IDL SJ. Wrote the paper: AS GO IDL SJ HWL.