About the Authors

Matthias Rothe

rothe@igb-berlin.de

Affiliations Department of Chemical Analytics and Biogeochemistry, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, Department of Geography, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Kleeberg

Current address: State Laboratory Berlin-Brandenburg, Kleinmachnow, Germany

Affiliation Department of Chemical Analytics and Biogeochemistry, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

Björn Grüneberg

Affiliation Department of Freshwater Conservation, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Bad Saarow, Germany

Kurt Friese

Affiliation UFZ-Department of Lake Research, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Magdeburg, Germany

Manuel Pérez-Mayo

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Michael Hupfer

Affiliation Department of Chemical Analytics and Biogeochemistry, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR. Performed the experiments: MR BG. Analyzed the data: MR AK BG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR BG KF MPM. Wrote the paper: MR AK MH.