About the Authors

Annika Wein

Affiliation Department of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Jürgen Bauhus

Affiliation Department of Silviculture, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Simon Bilodeau-Gauthier

Affiliation Centre for Forest Research, Université du Québec à Montréal, Centre-ville Station, QC H3C 3P8 Montréal, Canada

Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

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

Charles Nock

Affiliations Department of Silviculture, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Department of Geobotany, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Michael Staab

michael.staab@nature.uni-freiburg.de

Affiliation Department of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JB SBG MSL CN MS. Data curation: SBG CN MS. Formal analysis: AW MS. Funding acquisition: JB MSL. Investigation: AW. Methodology: JB SBG MSL CN MS. Project administration: CN. Software: MS. Supervision: JB MSL CN. Visualization: AW MS. Writing – original draft: AW MS. Writing – review & editing: AW JB SBG MSL CN MS.