About the Authors

Dennis Rödder

Contributed equally to this work with: Dennis Rödder, A. Michelle Lawing

d.roedder.zfmk@uni-bonn.de

Affiliation Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

A. Michelle Lawing

Contributed equally to this work with: Dennis Rödder, A. Michelle Lawing

Affiliation National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Morris Flecks

Affiliation Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Faraham Ahmadzadeh

Affiliation Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Johannes Dambach

Affiliation Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Jan O. Engler

Affiliations Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany, Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Trier, Germany

Jan Christian Habel

Affiliation Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Trier, Germany

Timo Hartmann

Affiliation Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

David Hörnes

Affiliation Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Flora Ihlow

Affiliation Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Kathrin Schidelko

Affiliation Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

Darius Stiels

Affiliation Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

P. David Polly

Affiliation Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DR AML PDP. Performed the experiments: DR AML MF PDP. Analyzed the data: DR AML MF FA JD JOE JCH TH DH FI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DR AML KS DS. Wrote the paper: DR AML JCH PDP.