About the Authors

Radim Matula

radim.matula@mendelu.cz

Affiliation Department of Forest botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Martin Svátek

Affiliation Department of Forest botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Marcela Pálková

Affiliations Department of Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, Silva Tarouca Research Institute, Department of Forest Ecology, Brno, Czech Republic

Daniel Volařík

Affiliation Department of Forest botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Tomáš Vrška

Affiliation Silva Tarouca Research Institute, Department of Forest Ecology, Brno, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM TV. Performed the experiments: RM MS MP DV TV. Analyzed the data: RM MS DV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM. Wrote the paper: RM.