About the Authors

Steffen Boch

steffen.boch@ips.unibe.ch

Affiliations Institute of Plant Sciences, Botanical Garden, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Oeschger Center, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Daniel Prati

Affiliations Institute of Plant Sciences, Botanical Garden, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Oeschger Center, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Silke Werth

Affiliation Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Jörg Rüetschi

Affiliation Hinterkappelen, Switzerland

Markus Fischer

Affiliations Institute of Plant Sciences, Botanical Garden, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Oeschger Center, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB. Performed the experiments: SB SW. Analyzed the data: SB DP MF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB SW. Wrote the paper: SB DP SW MF. Determined snail species: JR.