Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG; German Research Foundation – 319936945/GRK2324) and the
University of Chinese Academy Sciences (UCAS). We acknowledge the
support of the International Research Training Group TreeDì and thank
the members of the BEF-China platform and especially many local helpers
involved in collecting the samples. The Experimental Interaction Ecology
group is supported by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity
Research (iDiv). We gratefully acknowledge the support of iDiv funded by
the German Research Foundation (DFG-FZT 118, 202548816). R.B.
acknowledges funding by the Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture
and Tourism (SMWK; grant 3-7304/35/6-2021/48880).