About the Authors

Katharina Homburg

homburg@uni.leuphana.de

Affiliation Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute of Ecology, Lüneburg, Germany

Claudia Drees

Affiliations Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute of Ecology, Lüneburg, Germany, University of Hamburg, Biocentre Grindel and Zoological Museum, Behavioural Biology, Hamburg, Germany

Martin M. Gossner

Affiliation Technische Universität München, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

László Rakosy

Affiliation Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Al Vrezec

Affiliation National Institute of Biology, Department of Freshwater and Terrestrial Ecosystems Research, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Thorsten Assmann

Affiliation Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute of Ecology, Lüneburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Commented on previous versions of the manuscript: CD MMG LR AV TA. Conceived and designed the experiments: KH CD TA. Performed the experiments: KH CD TA. Analyzed the data: KH CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KH CD MMG LR AV TA. Wrote the paper: KH.