About the Authors

Kaichang Cheng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China

Xuemin Cheng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

chengxm@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn (XC); hbi@umces.edu (HB)

Affiliation Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China

Yuqi Wang

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China

Hongsheng Bi

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

chengxm@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn (XC); hbi@umces.edu (HB)

Affiliation Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, Maryland, United States of America

Mark C. Benfield

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.