About the Authors

Leho Tedersoo

leho.tedersoo@ut.ee

Affiliations Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Natural History Museum, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Kessy Abarenkov

Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

R. Henrik Nilsson

Affiliations Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

Arthur Schüssler

Affiliation Genetics, Department of Biology I, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, München, Germany

Gwen-Aëlle Grelet

Affiliations Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, Landcare Research – Manaaki Whenua, Lincoln, New Zealand

Petr Kohout

Affiliations Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Průhonice, Czech Republic, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Jane Oja

Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Gregory M. Bonito

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Vilmar Veldre

Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Teele Jairus

Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Martin Ryberg

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Karl-Henrik Larsson

Affiliation Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Urmas Kõljalg

Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LT KA RHN AS K-HL UK. Performed the experiments: LT KA RHN AS G-AG PK JO GMB VV TJ MR K-HL UK. Analyzed the data: LT KA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KA RHN. Wrote the paper: LT RHN AS G-AG GMB.