About the Authors

Roey Angel

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Diethart Matthies

Affiliation Plant Ecology, Department of Ecology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Ralf Conrad

conrad@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RA RC. Performed the experiments: RA. Analyzed the data: RA DM RC. Wrote the paper: RA DM RC.