About the Authors

Christine Fischer

Fischer.christine@uni-jena.de

Affiliations Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Christiane Roscher

Affiliation UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Community Ecology, Halle, Germany

Britta Jensen

Affiliation J. F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Nico Eisenhauer

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

Jussi Baade

Affiliation Department of Geography, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Sabine Attinger

Affiliations Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany, UFZ, Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research, Department of Computational Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany

Stefan Scheu

Affiliation J. F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Wolfgang W. Weisser

Affiliation Technical University Munich, Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Center for Food and Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany

Jens Schumacher

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

Anke Hildebrandt

Affiliations Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CF CR BJ NE SS WWW JB AH. Performed the experiments: CF BJ. Analyzed the data: CF CR NE AH JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CR NE SS WWW SA AH JS. Wrote the paper: CF CR NE SS WWW JB AH JS.