About the Authors

Avit Kumar Bhowmik

bhowmik@uni-landau.de

Affiliation Quantitative Landscape Ecology, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau in der Pfalz, Germany

Ralf B. Schäfer

Affiliation Quantitative Landscape Ecology, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau in der Pfalz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKB RBS. Performed the experiments: AKB. Analyzed the data: AKB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AKB RBS. Wrote the paper: AKB RBS.