About the Authors

Andreas Schuldt

schuldt@uni.leuphana.de

Affiliation Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

Sabine Both

Affiliation Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Helge Bruelheide

Affiliation Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Werner Härdtle

Affiliation Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

Bernhard Schmid

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Hongzhang Zhou

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Thorsten Assmann

Affiliation Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS HB WH BS HZ TA. Performed the experiments: AS. Analyzed the data: AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB HB WH BS. Wrote the paper: AS. Commented on previous versions of the manuscript: SB HB WH BS HZ TA.