About the Authors

Alexander Rief

Affiliation Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Brigitte A. Knapp

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Julia Seeber

Julia.Seeber@uibk.ac.at

Affiliation Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR BK JS. Performed the experiments: AR BK JS. Analyzed the data: AR BK JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BK JS. Wrote the paper: AR BK JS.