About the Authors

Jiguang Wei

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

Caihong Li

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

Yong Li

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

Gaoming Jiang

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

Guanglei Cheng

Affiliation Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, PR China

Yanhai Zheng

zhengyanhai333@163.com

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China, State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shanxi, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-HZ G-MJ. Performed the experiments: J-GW C-HL YL G-LC. Analyzed the data: J-GW. Wrote the manuscript: J-GW Y-HZ.