About the Authors

Torsten Hothorn

Torsten.Hothorn@stat.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Institut für Statistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

Roland Brandl

Affiliation Fachbereich Biologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Jörg Müller

Affiliations Sachgebiet Forschung und Dokumentation, Nationalparkverwaltung Bayerischer Wald, Grafenau, Germany, Lehrstuhl für Terrestrische Ökologie, Technische Universität München, München, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH JM. Performed the experiments: TH JM. Analyzed the data: TH JM RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TH JM RB. Wrote the paper: TH JM RB.