About the Authors

Xavier Le Roux

Xavier.le-roux@univ-lyon1.fr

Affiliation Université de Lyon, INRA, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Microbial Ecology Centre (UMR 5557 CNRS, USC 1364 INRA), Villeurbanne, France

Bernhard Schmid

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Franck Poly

Affiliation Université de Lyon, INRA, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Microbial Ecology Centre (UMR 5557 CNRS, USC 1364 INRA), Villeurbanne, France

Romain L. Barnard

Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Pascal A. Niklaus

Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Nadine Guillaumaud

Affiliation Université de Lyon, INRA, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Microbial Ecology Centre (UMR 5557 CNRS, USC 1364 INRA), Villeurbanne, France

Maike Habekost

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Yvonne Oelmann

Affiliation Geoecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Laurent Philippot

Affiliation Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Sols, INRA, Dijon, France

Joana Falcao Salles

Affiliation Université de Lyon, INRA, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Microbial Ecology Centre (UMR 5557 CNRS, USC 1364 INRA), Villeurbanne, France

Michael Schloter

Affiliation Research Unit for Environmental Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

Sibylle Steinbeiss

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Alexandra Weigelt

Affiliation Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XLR BS FP AW. Performed the experiments: XLR FP RB PN NG MH YO LP JS MS SS AW. Analyzed the data: XLR BS FP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XLR FP RB PN NG MH YO LP JS MS SS AW. Wrote the paper: XLR BS FP RB PN NG MH YO LP JS MS SS AW.