About the Authors

Zhi-Hao Su

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China

Ming-Li Zhang

zhangml@ibcas.ac.cn

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLZ. Performed the experiments: ZHS. Analyzed the data: ZHS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLZ ZHS. Wrote the paper: ZHS MLZ. No.