About the Authors

Kristina Stemmer

Kristina.Stemmer@awi.de

Affiliation Functional Ecology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, Bremerhaven, Germany

Gernot Nehrke

Affiliation BioGeoScience, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, Bremerhaven, Germany

Thomas Brey

Affiliation Functional Ecology, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, Bremerhaven, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS TB GN. Performed the experiments: KS. Analyzed the data: KS TB GN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB GN. Wrote the paper: KS TB GN.