About the Authors

Karl Auerswald

auerswald@wzw.tum.de

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Grünlandlehre, Technische Universität München, Alte Akademie 12, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Max H.O.M. Wittmer

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Grünlandlehre, Technische Universität München, Alte Akademie 12, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Radnaakhand Tungalag

Affiliation National University of Mongolia, Ikh surguulin gudalmj –1, Baga toiruu, Sukhbataar District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Yongfei Bai

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Hans Schnyder

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Grünlandlehre, Technische Universität München, Alte Akademie 12, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KA HS. Performed the experiments: KA MW RT YB HS. Analyzed the data: KA MW. Wrote the paper: KA MW HS YB.