About the Authors

Juan Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Forest Resources and Ecosystem Processes of Beijing, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Chunyu Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Forest Resources and Ecosystem Processes of Beijing, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Xiuhai Zhao

zhaoxh@bjfu.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Forest Resources and Ecosystem Processes of Beijing, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Klaus V. Gadow

Affiliation Faculty of Forestry and Forest Ecology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Büsgenweg 5, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW CZ XZ KG. Performed the experiments: JW. Analyzed the data: JW CZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW. Wrote the paper: JW.