About the Authors

Christine Johanna Thorn

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Johanna Thorn, Kerstin Bissinger

Christine.Thorn@uni-bayreuth.de

Affiliation Department of Biological Education and Centre of Math and Science Education (Z-MNU), University of Bayreuth, Universitätstraße 30, NW II, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany

Kerstin Bissinger

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Johanna Thorn, Kerstin Bissinger

Affiliation Department of Biological Education and Centre of Math and Science Education (Z-MNU), University of Bayreuth, Universitätstraße 30, NW II, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany

Simon Thorn

Affiliation Bavarian Forest National Park, National Park, Freyunger Str. 2, 94481, Grafenau, Germany

Franz Xaver Bogner

Affiliation Department of Biological Education and Centre of Math and Science Education (Z-MNU), University of Bayreuth, Universitätstraße 30, NW II, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJT KB. Performed the experiments: CJT KB. Analyzed the data: CJT KB ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJT KB ST. Wrote the paper: CJT KB ST FXB.