About the Authors

Ulf Büntgen

buentgen@wsl.ch

Affiliations Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland

Christoph C. Raible

Affiliations Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

David Frank

Affiliations Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland

Samuli Helama

Affiliation Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

Laura Cunningham

Affiliation School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland

Dominik Hofer

Affiliations Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Daniel Nievergelt

Affiliation Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Anne Verstege

Affiliation Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Mauri Timonen

Affiliation The Finnish Forest Research Institute, Rovaniemi, Finland

Nils Chr. Stenseth

Affiliation Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis CEES, University of Oslo, Blindern, Norway

Jan Esper

Affiliation Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UB DF JE. Performed the experiments: UB DF JE CR DH. Analyzed the data: UB DF JE CR DH DN AV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC SH MT. Wrote the paper: UB CR JE LC NS DH SH DF.