About the Authors

Yaai Dang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaai Dang, Wei Ren

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America, College of Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Wei Ren

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaai Dang, Wei Ren

Affiliation International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Bo Tao

Affiliation International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Guangsheng Chen

Affiliation International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Chaoqun Lu

Affiliation International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Jia Yang

Affiliation International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Shufen Pan

Affiliation International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Guodong Wang

Affiliation College of Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Shiqing Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Hanqin Tian

tianhan@auburn.edu

Affiliation International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HT YD WR. Performed the experiments: YD WR. Analyzed the data: YD WR BT GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC BT JY SP. Wrote the paper: YD WR HT BT GC CL JY SP GW SL.