About the Authors

Anne Daebeler

Affiliations Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany, Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands

Martina Gansen

Affiliation Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Peter Frenzel

frenzel@mpi-marburg.mpg.de

Affiliation Department of Biogeochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PF. Performed the experiments: AD. Analyzed the data: AD MG PF. Wrote the paper: AD PF.