About the Authors

E. M. B. P. Ekanayake

Contributed equally to this work with: E. M. B. P. Ekanayake, G. T. Cirella, Yi Xie

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China, Department of Forest Conservation, Sampathpaya, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka

G. T. Cirella

Contributed equally to this work with: E. M. B. P. Ekanayake, G. T. Cirella, Yi Xie

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Economics, University of Gdansk, Sopot, Poland

Yi Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: E. M. B. P. Ekanayake, G. T. Cirella, Yi Xie

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

yixie@bjfu.edu.cn

Affiliation School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.