About the Authors

Jinpei Ou

Affiliation School of Geography and Planning, and Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo-simulation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xiaoping Liu

liuxp3@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Affiliation School of Geography and Planning, and Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo-simulation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Xia Li

Affiliation School of Geography and Planning, and Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo-simulation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Meifang Li

Affiliation School of Geography and Planning, and Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo-simulation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Wenkai Li

Affiliation School of Geography and Planning, and Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo-simulation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: X. Liu JO. Performed the experiments: JO. Analyzed the data: JO X. Liu. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JO X. Liu. Wrote the paper: JO. Edited and revised the manuscript: X. Liu X. Li ML WL.