About the Authors

María Fernanda Tapia-Armijos

mftapia@utpl.edu.ec

Affiliations Sección de Ecología y Sistemática, Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador, Plant Ecology, Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Jürgen Homeier

Affiliation Plant Ecology, Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Carlos Iván Espinosa

Affiliation Sección de Ecología y Sistemática, Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador

Christoph Leuschner

Affiliation Plant Ecology, Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Marcelino de la Cruz

Affiliation Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Departamento de Biología y Geología, ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MFT. Performed the experiments: MFT. Analyzed the data: MFT JH CIE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MFT HJ CIE. Wrote the paper: MFT JH CIE CL MC.