About the Authors

Tesfaye Wubet

Contributed equally to this work with: Tesfaye Wubet, Sabina Christ

tesfaye.wubet@ufz.de

Affiliation UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany

Sabina Christ

Contributed equally to this work with: Tesfaye Wubet, Sabina Christ

Affiliation Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Department of Diagnostics, Leipzig, Germany

Ingo Schöning

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department Biogeochemical Processes, Jena, Germany

Steffen Boch

Affiliation University of Bern, Institute of Plant Sciences and Botanical Garden, Bern, Switzerland

Melanie Gawlich

Affiliation UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany

Beatrix Schnabel

Affiliation UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany

Markus Fischer

Affiliation University of Bern, Institute of Plant Sciences and Botanical Garden, Bern, Switzerland

François Buscot

Affiliations UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany, University of Leipzig, Institute of Biology, Chair of Soil Ecology, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FB TW. Performed the experiments: SC MG BS. Analyzed the data: TW SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FB TW. Wrote the paper: TW SC FB. Contributed data on soil properties and analysis of the data: IS. Contributed vegetation data and analysis of the data: SB MF.