About the Authors

Arnulf Koehncke

arnulf.koehncke@biologie.hu-berlin.de

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Arndt Telschow

Affiliations Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

John H. Werren

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Peter Hammerstein

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: AK AT. Wrote the paper: AK AT JHW PH. Contributed to design and construction of model: AK AT JHW. Conducted numerical simulations: AK. Performed analytical calculations: AK. Conceptualised the original idea of the study: JHW PH.