About the Authors

Florian Hartig

florian.hartig@biom.uni-freiburg.de

Affiliations Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Tamara Münkemüller

Affiliations Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France, Laboratoire d'Écologie Alpine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France, Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

Karin Johst

Affiliation Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

Ulf Dieckmann

Affiliation Evolution and Ecology Program, International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FH TM KJ UD. Performed the experiments: FH. Analyzed the data: FH. Wrote the paper: FH TM KJ UD.