Acknowledgments
We thank Chi Xu fruitful discussion that greatly improved the
manuscript. Funding: This research was a product of the project
“Coping with deltas in transition” within the Programme of Strategic
Scientific Alliances between China and The Netherlands (PSA) financed by
the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (2016YFE0133700), and the
National Natural Science Foundation of China (41676084). Author
contributions: Q.-X. L. designed research; W.-S. H. and M. H. performed
research; W.-S. H. and H. P. Z. contributed new analyzed data; W.-S. H.
and F. Z. contributed computer code; W.V. contributed the experimental
diatom strains and experimental details; All authors contributed
substantially to discussion of the content, wrote the article and
reviewed and edited the manuscript before submission. Competing
interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.Data and materials availability: all data needed to evaluate
the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the
supplementary Materials. The code to reproduce the results of this study
is available on the publicly repository Dryad, DOI:
10.5061/dryad.547d7wm41.