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Affiliations

• ¹ College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
• ² Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, and Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA. xiangming.xiao@ou.edu.
• ³ Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. dongjw@igsnrr.ac.cn.
• ⁴ Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
• ⁵ Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
• ⁶ Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, and Center for Spatial Analysis, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.
• ⁷ Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
• ⁸ College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.