About the Authors

Franziska Taubert

franziska.taubert@ufz.de

Affiliation Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Florian Hartig

Affiliations Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, Department of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Hans-Jürgen Dobner

Affiliation Faculty of Computer Science, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Applied Science, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Andreas Huth

Affiliation Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FT FH HJD AH. Performed the experiments: FT. Analyzed the data: FT FH AH. Wrote the paper: FT FH HJD AH.