About the Authors

Lydia R. O’Halloran

riesl@science.oregonstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Elizabeth T. Borer

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Eric W. Seabloom

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Andrew S. MacDougall

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Elsa E. Cleland

Affiliation Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Section, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Rebecca L. McCulley

Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Sarah Hobbie

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

W. Stan Harpole

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Nicole M. DeCrappeo

Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Chengjin Chu

Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Jonathan D. Bakker

Affiliation School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kendi F. Davies

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Guozhen Du

Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Jennifer Firn

Affiliation Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Earth, Environment and Biological Sciences, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Nicole Hagenah

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, South Africa, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Kirsten S. Hofmockel

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Johannes M. H. Knops

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Wei Li

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Brett A. Melbourne

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

John W. Morgan

Affiliation Department of Botany, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

John L. Orrock

Affiliation Zoology Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Suzanne M. Prober

Affiliation CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Wembley, Western Australia, Australia

Carly J. Stevens

Affiliations Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LRO ETB EWS WSH JLO. Performed the experiments: LRO ETB EWS ASM EEC RLM SH WSH NMD CC JDB KFD GD JF NH KSH JMHK WL BAM JWM JLO SMP CJS. Analyzed the data: LRO EWS ETB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LRO ETB EWS ASM EEC RLM SH WSH NMD CC JDB KFD GD JF NH KSH JMHK WL BAM JWM JLO SMP CJS. Wrote the paper: LRO ETB EWS ASM EEC.