About the Authors

Doris Steger

Contributed equally to this work with: Doris Steger, David Berry

Affiliation Department of Microbial Ecology, Vienna Ecology Center, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria

David Berry

Contributed equally to this work with: Doris Steger, David Berry

Affiliation Department of Microbial Ecology, Vienna Ecology Center, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria

Susanne Haider

Affiliation Department of Microbial Ecology, Vienna Ecology Center, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria

Matthias Horn

Affiliation Department of Microbial Ecology, Vienna Ecology Center, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria

Michael Wagner

Affiliation Department of Microbial Ecology, Vienna Ecology Center, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria

Roman Stocker

Affiliation Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alexander Loy

loy@microbial-ecology.net

Affiliation Department of Microbial Ecology, Vienna Ecology Center, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS DB RS AL. Performed the experiments: DS DB RS SH. Analyzed the data: DB AL RS DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AL MW MH RS. Wrote the paper: DB DS RS AL. Developed the model: RS. Edited and proofread the manuscript: SH MH MW.