About the Authors

Dörte Bachmann

doerte.bachmann@usys.ethz.ch

Affiliation Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Annette Gockele

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Department of Geobotany, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Janneke M. Ravenek

Affiliation Department of Experimental Plant Ecology; Institute for Water and Wetland Research; Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Christiane Roscher

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

Tanja Strecker

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

Alexandra Weigelt

Affiliations Department of Special Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Nina Buchmann

Affiliation Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

Alexandra Weigelt, one of our co-authors, serves currently as an editor for PLOS ONE, but this does not alter the authors′ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DB AG JR CR TS AW NB. Performed the experiments: DB AG JR CR TS AW. Analyzed the data: DB CR NB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NB. Wrote the paper: DB AG JR CR TS AW NB.