About the Authors

Matthias Schleuning

matthias.schleuning@senckenberg.de

Affiliations Department of Ecology, Institute of Zoology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt (Main), Germany, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt (Main), Germany

Nina Farwig

Affiliation Conservation Ecology, Department of Ecology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Marcell K. Peters

Affiliations Zoological Research Museum A. Koenig, Bonn, Germany, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Thomas Bergsdorf

Affiliation Zoological Research Museum A. Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Bärbel Bleher

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Institute of Zoology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Roland Brandl

Affiliation Animal Ecology, Department of Ecology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Helmut Dalitz

Affiliation Institute of Botany, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Georg Fischer

Affiliation Zoological Research Museum A. Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Wolfram Freund

Affiliation Zoological Research Museum A. Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Mary W. Gikungu

Affiliation National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Melanie Hagen

Affiliations Biological Collection, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark

Francisco Hita Garcia

Affiliation Zoological Research Museum A. Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Godfrey H. Kagezi

Affiliation Animal Ecology, Department of Ecology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Manfred Kaib

Affiliation Department of Animal Physiology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

Manfred Kraemer

Affiliation Biological Collection, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

Tobias Lung

Affiliation Department of Geomatics, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

Clas M. Naumann

† Deceased.

Affiliation Zoological Research Museum A. Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Gertrud Schaab

Affiliation Department of Geomatics, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, Germany

Mathias Templin

Affiliations Department of Ecology, Institute of Zoology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt (Main), Germany, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt (Main), Germany

Dana Uster

Affiliation Institute of Botany, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

J. Wolfgang Wägele

Affiliation Zoological Research Museum A. Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Katrin Böhning-Gaese

Affiliations Department of Ecology, Institute of Zoology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt (Main), Germany, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt (Main), Germany, Department of Biological Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Main), Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS NF MP RB HD WF MH M. Kaib M. Kraemer CN GS JW KB-G. Performed the experiments: MS NF MP TB BB GF MG FHG GK TL MT DU. Analyzed the data: MS. Wrote the paper: MS KB-G.