About the Authors

Meiling Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

zhangml@gsau.edu.cn (MZ); liuxn@gsau.edu.cn (XL)

Affiliations Center for Quantitative Biology, College of Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

Xiaoni Liu

Roles Conceptualization

zhangml@gsau.edu.cn (MZ); liuxn@gsau.edu.cn (XL)

Affiliation College of Prataculture, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

Stephen Nazieh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Biology, College of Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

Xingyu Wang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Biology, College of Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

Teddy Nkrumah

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Biology, College of Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

Shanglang Hong

Roles Software

Affiliation Center for Quantitative Biology, College of Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist