About the Authors

Ying Yu

Affiliation Northeast Forestry University, School of Forestry, XiangFang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Jing M. Chen

Affiliation University of Toronto, Department of Geography and Program in Planning, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Xiguang Yang

Affiliation Northeast Forestry University, Key Laboratory of Saline-alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration (SAVER), Ministry of Education, Alkali Soil Natural Environmental Science Center (ASNESC), XiangFang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Wenyi Fan

fanwy5384@163.com

Affiliation Northeast Forestry University, School of Forestry, XiangFang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Mingze Li

Affiliation Northeast Forestry University, School of Forestry, XiangFang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Liming He

Affiliation University of Toronto, Department of Geography and Program in Planning, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YY JMC WYF. Data curation: YY XGY. Formal analysis: YY. Funding acquisition: XGY YY MZL. Investigation: YY MZL. Methodology: YY JMC WYF. Project administration: YY WYF. Resources: WYF. Software: YY XGY. Supervision: JMC WYF. Validation: YY WYF. Visualization: YY. Writing – original draft: YY. Writing – review & editing: JMC LMH XGY.