About the Authors

Danny Ionescu

dionescu@mpi-bremen.de

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Christian Siebert

Affiliation Department of Catchment Hydrology, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ, Halle/Saale, Germany

Lubos Polerecky

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Yaniv Y. Munwes

Affiliation Department of Geography & Environmental Development, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Christian Lott

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, HYDRA Institute for Marine Sciences, Elba Field Station, Campo nell’Elba (LI), Italy

Stefan Häusler

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Mina Bižić-Ionescu

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, Department of Stratified Lakes, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries Berlin, Stechlin, Germany

Christian Quast

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Jörg Peplies

Affiliation Ribocon GmbH, Bremen, Germany

Frank Oliver Glöckner

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, Jacobs University Bremen GmbH, Bremen, Germany

Alban Ramette

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Tino Rödiger

Affiliation Department of Catchment Hydrology, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ, Halle/Saale, Germany

Thorsten Dittmar

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany

Aharon Oren

Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Stefan Geyer

Affiliation Department of Catchment Hydrology, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ, Halle/Saale, Germany

Hans-Joachim Stärk

Affiliation Department of Analytical Chemistry, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

Martin Sauter

Affiliation Geoscientific Centre, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Tobias Licha

Affiliation Geoscientific Centre, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Jonathan B. Laronne

Affiliation Department of Geography & Environmental Development, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Dirk de Beer

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Competing Interests

JP is an employee of Ribocon German Federal Ministry of Education and Science. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DI CS. Performed the experiments: DI CS YYM CL SH MBI TR TD. Analyzed the data: DI CS LP CQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CQ JP FOG AR AO SG HJS MS TL JBL DdB. Wrote the paper: DI CS LP CQ JP AR DdB.