About the Authors

Andrew L. Neal

andy.neal@rothamsted.ac.uk (ALN); j.ton@sheffield.ac.uk (JT)

Affiliation Centre for Sustainable Soils and Grassland Systems, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Shakoor Ahmad

Affiliations Centre for Sustainable Soils and Grassland Systems, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ruth Gordon-Weeks

Affiliation Centre for Sustainable Soils and Grassland Systems, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Jurriaan Ton

andy.neal@rothamsted.ac.uk (ALN); j.ton@sheffield.ac.uk (JT)

Affiliation Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ALN RGW JT. Performed the experiments: ALN SA JT. Analyzed the data: ALN SA JT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ALN JT. Wrote the paper: ALN JT.