About the Authors

Qi Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

qz@unc.edu (QZ); csong@email.unc.edu (CS)

Affiliation Department of Geography and Environment, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Shiqi Tao

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geography and Environment, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Pamela Jagger

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Lawrence E. Band

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

Richard E. Bilsborrow

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Geography and Environment, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Zhiqiang Zhang

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Qingfeng Huang

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Quanfa Zhang

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Aaron Moody

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geography and Environment, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Conghe Song

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

qz@unc.edu (QZ); csong@email.unc.edu (CS)

Affiliations Department of Geography and Environment, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.