Affiliations
  1. State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
  2. School of Physics and Astronomy & Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
  3. Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecosystem Protection and Restoration, School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China.
  4. Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium.
  5. Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration & Center for Global Change and Ecological Forecasting, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: qxliu@sklec.ecnu.edu.cn
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.
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