Running title: Phenology reshapes species dominance
Ji Chen (ji.chen@agro.au.dk)1,2,3,4*, Yiqi Luo (Yiqi.Luo@nau.edu)5, Yuxin Chen (chenyux9@mail2.sysu.edu.cn)6, Andrew J. Felton (felton12392@gmail.com)7, Kelly A. Hopping (kellyhopping@boisestate.edu)8, Rui-Wu Wang (wangrw@nwpu.edu.cn)1, Shuli Niu (sniu@igsnrr.ac.cn)9, Xiaoli Cheng (xlcheng@fudan.edu.cn)10, Yuefang Zhang (yuefangzh@gmail.com)11, Junji Cao (cao@loess.llqg.ac.cn)2,12, Jørgen Eivind Olesen (jeo@agro.au.dk)3,13, Mathias Neumann Andersen (mathiasn.andersen@agro.au.dk)3 and Uffe Jørgensen (uffe.jorgensen@agro.au.dk)3,4
1Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory for Space Bioscience & Biotechnology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China.
2State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology (SKLLQG), and Key Laboratory of Aerosol Chemistry and Physics, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, 710061, China.
3Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Tjele 8830, Denmark.
4Center for Circular Bioeconomy, Aarhus University, Tjele 8830, Denmark.
5Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA.
6College of the Environment & Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China.
7Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA.
8Human-Environment Systems, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725, USA
9Synthesis Research Center of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
10School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China.
11Circular Agriculture Research Center, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China.
12Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China.
13iCLIMATE Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, Aarhus University, Roskilde 4000, Denmark.