About the Authors

Lionel R. Hertzog

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Center for Food and Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Sebastian T. Meyer

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Center for Food and Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Wolfgang W. Weisser

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Center for Food and Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Anne Ebeling

anne.ebeling@uni-jena.de

Affiliation Institute of Ecology, University of Jena, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AE LRH STM WWW. Performed the experiments: AE STM WWW. Analyzed the data: AE LRH STM WWW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WWW. Wrote the paper: AE LRH STM WWW.