About the Authors

Min Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Min Liu, Shi-Yun Hu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Grassland Science Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Shi-Yun Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Min Liu, Shi-Yun Hu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Grassland Science Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Min Li

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Hao Sun

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Grassland Science Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Ming-Long Yuan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

yuanml@lzu.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Grassland Science Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, College of Pastoral Agricultural Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.