About the Authors

Olena Glavatska

Affiliation Institute of Biology, Ecology Group, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Karolin Müller

Affiliation Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Soil Biology Department, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Olaf Butenschoen

Affiliation J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Andreas Schmalwasser

Affiliation Institute of Geosciences, Hydrogeology Section, Friedrich Schiller University of JenaJena, Germany

Ellen Kandeler

Affiliation Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Soil Biology Department, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Stefan Scheu

Affiliations J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Georg August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Kai Uwe Totsche

Affiliation Institute of Geosciences, Hydrogeology Section, Friedrich Schiller University of JenaJena, Germany

Liliane Ruess

liliane.ruess@biologie.hu-berlin.de

Affiliation Institute of Biology, Ecology Group, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: OB EK SS KUT LR. Data curation: OG KM AS. Formal analysis: OG KM AS. Funding acquisition: EK SS KUT LR. Investigation: OG KM AS OB. Methodology: OG KM AS OB EK SS KUT LR. Project administration: OB EK SS KUT LR. Resources: EK SS KUT LR. Software: EK SS KUT LR. Supervision: EK SS KUT LR. Validation: OG KM AS OB EK SS KUT LR. Visualization: OG KM AS. Writing – original draft: OG KM AS. Writing – review & editing: OG KM EK SS KUT LR.