About the Authors

Qiang Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plateau Ecology and Agriculture/College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Qinghai University, Xining, 810016, China

Guoxing He

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Grassland Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, P. R. China

Degang Zhang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Grassland Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, P. R. China

Xiaoni Liu

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Grassland Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.