About the Authors

Andy Hector

andrew.hector@uzh.ch

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Thomas Bell

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Yann Hautier

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Forest Isbell

Affiliation Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Marc Kéry

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Center for Population Analysis, Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, Switzerland

Peter B. Reich

Affiliation Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Jasper van Ruijven

Affiliation Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Bernhard Schmid

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH FI PR JvR BS. Performed the experiments: AH FI PR JvR BS. Analyzed the data: YH AH MK TB BS. Wrote the paper: AH TB YH FI MK PR JvR BS.