About the Authors

Elvire Bestion

e.bestion@exeter.ac.uk (EB); julien.cote@univ-tlse3.fr (JC)

Affiliations CNRS USR 2936, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale de Moulis, Moulis, France, CNRS, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, ENFA; UMR5174 EDB (Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique), Toulouse, France, Environmental and Sustainability Institute, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom

Aimeric Teyssier

Affiliations CNRS, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, ENFA; UMR5174 EDB (Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique), Toulouse, France, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Murielle Richard

Affiliation CNRS USR 2936, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale de Moulis, Moulis, France

Jean Clobert

Affiliation CNRS USR 2936, Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale de Moulis, Moulis, France

Julien Cote

e.bestion@exeter.ac.uk (EB); julien.cote@univ-tlse3.fr (JC)

Affiliation CNRS, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, ENFA; UMR5174 EDB (Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique), Toulouse, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCo EB JCl. Performed the experiments: EB AT JCo MR EB. Analyzed the data: EB JCo. Wrote the paper: EB AT JCo MR EB JCl.