About the Authors

Raphaël Proulx

rproulx@bgc-jena.mpg.de

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Strasse, Jena, Germany

Christian Wirth

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Strasse, Jena, Germany, Department of Special Botany and Functional Biodiversity Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Winfried Voigt

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

Alexandra Weigelt

Affiliations Department of Special Botany and Functional Biodiversity Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Hydrology, Institute of Ecology, University of Jena, Jena, Germany

Christiane Roscher

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Strasse, Jena, Germany

Sabine Attinger

Affiliation UFZ Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

Jussi Baade

Affiliation Institute of Geography, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Romain L. Barnard

Affiliation Institute for Plant, Animal and Agroecosystem Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Nina Buchmann

Affiliation Institute for Plant, Animal and Agroecosystem Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

François Buscot

Affiliation Soil Ecology, UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany

Nico Eisenhauer

Affiliations Institute of Zoology, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany, J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Markus Fischer

Affiliations Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Gerd Gleixner

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Strasse, Jena, Germany

Stefan Halle

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

Anke Hildebrandt

Affiliation UFZ Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

Esther Kowalski

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

Annely Kuu

Affiliations Hydrology, Institute of Ecology, University of Jena, Jena, Germany, Tartu College, Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu, Estonia

Markus Lange

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

Alex Milcu

Affiliation Center for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, United Kingdom

Pascal A. Niklaus

Affiliations Institute for Plant, Animal and Agroecosystem Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Yvonne Oelmann

Affiliation Geographic Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Stephan Rosenkranz

Affiliation Geographic Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Alexander Sabais

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany

Christoph Scherber

Affiliation Department of Crop Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

Affiliations Institute for Plant, Animal and Agroecosystem Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, Faculty for Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Stefan Scheu

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

Ernst-Detlef Schulze

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Strasse, Jena, Germany

Jens Schumacher

Affiliation Institute for Stochastics, University of Jena, Jena, Germany

Guido Schwichtenberg

Affiliation UFZ Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

Jean-François Soussana

Affiliation Grassland Ecosystem Research, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Vicky M. Temperton

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Strasse, Jena, Germany, Phytosphere Institute ICG-3, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

Wolfgang W. Weisser

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

Wolfgang Wilcke

Affiliations Geographic Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Geographic Institute, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

Bernhard Schmid

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW WV NB FB MF GG SH ML MSL SS EDS JS JFS WW WW BS. Performed the experiments: RP AW CR RLB NE EK AK AM PAN YO AS CS VMT. Analyzed the data: RP PAN CS JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CW WV AW CR SA JB RLB NE GG AH EK AK AM SR GS. Wrote the paper: RP CW WV AW CR SA JB RLB NB FB NE MF GG SH AH EK AK ML AM PAN YO SR AS CS MSL SS EDS JS GS JFS VMT WW WW BS.