About the Authors

Ali Hassan Shabbir

Contributed equally to this work with: Ali Hassan Shabbir, James D. Johnston

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute of Natural Disaster Research, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Changchun, China

Jiquan Zhang

Roles Supervision

zhangjq022@nenu.edu.cn

Affiliations Institute of Natural Disaster Research, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Changchun, China

James D. Johnston

Contributed equally to this work with: Ali Hassan Shabbir, James D. Johnston

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Oregon, United States of America

Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie

Roles Methodology

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Nord University Business School (HHN), Norway

James A. Lutz

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Wildland Resources Department, Utah State University, Utah, United States of America

Xingpeng Liu

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institute of Natural Disaster Research, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Changchun, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.