About the Authors

Tsung-Ming Tsao

Affiliation The Experimental Forest, National Taiwan University, Nantou, Taiwan

Ming-Jer Tsai

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Jer Tsai, Ta-Chen Su

tachensu@ntu.edu.tw (TCS); tmj@ntu.edu.tw (MJT)

Affiliations The Experimental Forest, National Taiwan University, Nantou, Taiwan, The School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ya-Nan Wang

Affiliations The Experimental Forest, National Taiwan University, Nantou, Taiwan, The School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Heng-Lun Lin

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chang-Fu Wu

Affiliation Department of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jing-Shiang Hwang

Affiliation Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Sandy-H.J. Hsu

Affiliation Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsing Chao

Affiliation School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Kai-Jen Chuang

Affiliation School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Charles- CK. Chou

Affiliation Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Ta-Chen Su

Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Jer Tsai, Ta-Chen Su

tachensu@ntu.edu.tw (TCS); tmj@ntu.edu.tw (MJT)

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJT CFW JSH CCKC TCS. Performed the experiments: TMT CFW YNW HLL TCS. Analyzed the data: JSH TCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HC KJC TCS SHJH. Wrote the paper: TMT CFW MJT.