About the Authors

Thomas H. DeLuca

deluca@uw.edu

Affiliations School of the Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Institute for Subarctic Landscape Research, Torgatan 20, Arjeplog, Sweden

Olle Zackrisson

Affiliation Institute for Subarctic Landscape Research, Torgatan 20, Arjeplog, Sweden

Ingela Bergman

Affiliation Institute for Subarctic Landscape Research, Torgatan 20, Arjeplog, Sweden

Beatriz Díez

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda 340, C.P. 651 3677, Santiago, Chile

Birgitta Bergman

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OZ THD IB. Performed the experiments: OZ THD BB BD. Analyzed the data: THD BD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: THD OZ BB BD. Wrote the paper: THD BB OZ IB BD.