About the Authors

Nadia I. Maaroufi

Nadia.Maaroufi@slu.se

Affiliation Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden

Annika Nordin

Affiliation Umeå Plant Science Center (UPSC), Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

Kristin Palmqvist

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Environmental Science (EMG), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Michael J. Gundale

Affiliation Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AN NIM MJG KP. Formal analysis: NIM. Investigation: NIM. Resources: MJG KP AN. Writing – original draft: NIM MJG KP AN.