About the Authors

Stefanie A. Hartmann

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

hartmann@frinat.de

Affiliation Freiburg Institute of Applied Animal Ecology, Freiburg, Germany

Klaus Hochradel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation UMIT—Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology GmbH, Hall in Tirol, Austria

Sören Greule

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation OekoFor GbR, Freiburg, Germany

Felix Günther

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation OekoFor GbR, Freiburg, Germany

Bruntje Luedtke

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Freiburg Institute of Applied Animal Ecology, Freiburg, Germany

Horst Schauer-Weisshahn

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Freiburg Institute of Applied Animal Ecology, Freiburg, Germany

Robert Brinkmann

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Freiburg Institute of Applied Animal Ecology, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

During the time of the conduction of the study, all authors except Klaus Hochradel have been affiliated with FrInaT GmbH. The project itself was based with FrInaT. Once the project was finished, two authors (S.G., F.G.) were hired by Oekofor GbR. Oekofor and FrInaT collaborate with several projects and have no competing interests in a financial, professional or personal aspect. The commercial affiliations to FrInaT GmbH and Oekofor GbR do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.