About the Authors

Mari L. Fischer

Affiliation Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Trier, Germany

Axel Hochkirch

Affiliation Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Trier, Germany

Mike Heddergott

Affiliation Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Christoph Schulze

Affiliation Landeslabor Berlin-Brandenburg, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

Helena E. Anheyer-Behmenburg

Affiliation Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Food and Veterinary Institute Braunschweig/Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Johannes Lang

Affiliation Institut für Tierökologie und Naturbildung, Gonterskirchen, Germany

Frank-Uwe Michler

Affiliation Dresden University of Technology, Institute of Forest Botany and Forest Zoology, Tharandt, Germany

Ulf Hohmann

Affiliation Department of Wildlife Ecology, Research Institute for Forest Ecology and Forestry Rhineland-Palatinate, Trippstadt, Germany

Hermann Ansorge

Affiliation Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany

Lothar Hoffmann

Affiliation Thüringer Landesamt für Verbraucherschutz, Bad Langensalza, Germany

Roland Klein

Affiliation Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Trier, Germany

Alain C. Frantz

alain.frantz@mnhn.lu

Affiliation Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AF AH MF MH RK. Performed the experiments: MF. Analyzed the data: AF AH MF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HA HAB MF LH MH UH JL FM CS. Wrote the paper: AF MF AH MH.