About the Authors

Tibor Bukovinszky

tibor.bukovinszki@wur.nl

Affiliations Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands, Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands

Antonie M. Verschoor

Affiliations Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands, Ingrepro b.v., Borculo, The Netherlands, Wetsus, Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Nico R. Helmsing

Affiliation Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands

T. Martijn Bezemer

Affiliation Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands

Elisabeth S. Bakker

Affiliation Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands

Matthijs Vos

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Modeling, University of Potsdam, Germany

Lisette N. de Senerpont Domis

Affiliation Department of Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

Antonie Verschoor is also affiliated with partly commercially funded organisations (Ingrepro bv, Wetsus). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMV TB LSD. Performed the experiments: TB NRH. Analyzed the data: TB LSD AMV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NRH TB. Wrote the paper: TB MV LSD TMB ESB MV.