About the Authors

Wenzel Kröber

wenzel.kroeber@botanik.uni-halle.de

Affiliation Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Shouren Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Merten Ehmig

Affiliation Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Helge Bruelheide

Affiliations Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WK SZ ME HB. Performed the experiments: WK ME. Analyzed the data: WK HB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WK SZ ME HB. Wrote the paper: WK SZ ME HB.