About the Authors

Anne Ebeling

anne.ebeling@uni-jena.de

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

Sebastian T. Meyer

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Center for Food and Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Maike Abbas

Affiliation Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl-von-Ossietzky-University Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Nico Eisenhauer

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

Helmut Hillebrand

Affiliation Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl-von-Ossietzky-University Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Markus Lange

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Christoph Scherber

Affiliation DNPW, Agroecology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Anja Vogel

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

Alexandra Weigelt

Affiliation Department for Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Wolfgang W. Weisser

Affiliations Institute of Ecology, University of Jena, Jena, Germany, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Center for Food and Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AE STM NE HH AV AW WWW. Performed the experiments: STM NE AV AE ML MA HH AW. Analyzed the data: AE STM CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: STM CS NE AE HH AW WWW. Wrote the paper: AE STM MA NE HH ML AV AW WWW.