About the Authors

Elly Spijkerman

spijker@uni-potsdam.de

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Francisco de Castro

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Ursula Gaedke

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES. Performed the experiments: ES. Analyzed the data: ES FdC UG. Wrote the paper: ES FdC UG.