About the Authors

Stephan Wolf

s.wolf@qmul.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Agro-Ecology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Dino P. McMahon

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Institute for Biology, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany

Ka S. Lim

Affiliation Department of Agro-Ecology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Christopher D. Pull

Affiliations Department of Agro-Ecology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology Austria), Klosterneuburg, Austria

Suzanne J. Clark

Affiliation Department of Computational and Systems Biology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Robert J. Paxton

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Institute for Biology, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany

Juliet L. Osborne

Affiliations Department of Agro-Ecology, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLO RJP SW KSL. Performed the experiments: SW KSL DPM CDP. Analyzed the data: SW KSL SJC DPM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW DPM KSL SJC. Wrote the paper: SW. Revised the manuscript: SW DPM KSL CDP SJC RJP JLO.