About the Authors

Yang Lu

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Institute of Ecology and Geobotany, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Sailesh Ranjitkar

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, World Agroforestry Centre, ICRAF East and Central Asia, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Rhett D. Harrison

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, World Agroforestry Centre, East and Southern Africa Region, Lusaka, Zambia

Jianchu Xu

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, World Agroforestry Centre, ICRAF East and Central Asia, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Xiaokun Ou

Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Geobotany, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Xuelan Ma

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jun He

jun.he@ynu.edu.cn

Affiliations National Centre for Borderland Ethnic Studies in Southwest China, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China, School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YL JX XO JH. Formal analysis: YL SR RDH JH. Funding acquisition: JX JH. Investigation: YL XM JH. Methodology: YL SR RDH JH. Writing – original draft: YL SR RDH JX XO XM JH.