About the Authors

Bruno Merk

b.merk@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliations Institute of Resource Ecology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany, Center for Materials and Structure, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

Dzianis Litskevich

Affiliation Institute of Resource Ecology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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