About the Authors

Dunmei Lin

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jiangshan Lai

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Helene C. Muller-Landau

Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama

Xiangcheng Mi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Keping Ma

kpma@ibcas.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KPM DML. Performed the experiments: DML. Analyzed the data: DML JSL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KPM XCM JSL. Wrote the paper: DML HCM.