About the Authors

Tanja Strecker

Tanja-Strecker@gmx.de

Affiliation J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Romain L. Barnard

Affiliations INRA, UMR1347 Agroécologie, Dijon, France, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Pascal A. Niklaus

Affiliations ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

Affiliation Chair of Geobotany, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Alexandra Weigelt

Affiliations Institute for Biology, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Stefan Scheu

Affiliation J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Nico Eisenhauer

Affiliations Institute for Biology, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RLB PAN MSL SS AW NE. Performed the experiments: RLB PAN MSL SS AW NE. Analyzed the data: TS NE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RLB PAN MSL SS AW NE. Wrote the paper: TS NE SS.