About the Authors

Katrin N. Seidelmann

katrin.seidelmann@biologie.uni-freiburg.de

Affiliation Geobotany, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

Affiliation Geobotany, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Pascal A. Niklaus

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSL PAN KNS. Performed the experiments: KNS. Analyzed the data: PAN KNS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KNS PAN MSL. Wrote the paper: KNS PAN MSL.