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Affiliations

• ¹ State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Institute for Peat and Mire Research, Northeast Normal University, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China.
• ² Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory for Wetland Ecological Processes and Environmental Change in the Changbai Mountains, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China.
• ³ Department of Plant Ecology and Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, Uppsala, SE-752 36, Sweden.
• ⁴ Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7007, Uppsala, SE-750 07, Sweden.
• ⁵ Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 72 Wenhua Road, Shenyang, 110016, China.
• ⁶ Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Chinese Taipei.