Erratum to: Trees (2016) 30:675–684 DOI 10.1007/s00468-015-1310-4

Unfortunately, the part Acknowledgments was missing in the original publication and the corrected version is given below:

Acknowledgments The study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31570715). The authors wish to thanks anonymous reviewers for critically reviewing previous drafts. The author also thanks Dave Baier for our manuscript language editing.