About the Authors

Zhongwu Li

lizw@hnu.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS and MWR, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, 712100, PR China, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, PR China, Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha, PR China

Xiaodong Nie

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS and MWR, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, 712100, PR China, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, PR China, Key Laboratory of Environmental Biology and Pollution Control (Hunan University), Ministry of Education, Changsha, PR China

Xiaofeng Chang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS and MWR, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, 712100, PR China

Lin Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS and MWR, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, 712100, PR China

Liying Sun

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZWL XDN LYS. Performed the experiments: ZWL XDN LYS LL. Analyzed the data: ZWL XDN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XFC LL. Wrote the paper: ZWL XDN.