About the Authors

Michael Staab

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Staab, Michael Ohl

michael.staab@nature.uni-freiburg.de

Affiliations Department of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Ecosystem Function Group, Institute of Ecology, University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

Michael Ohl

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Staab, Michael Ohl

Affiliation Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin, Germany

Chao-Dong Zhu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

Alexandra-Maria Klein

Affiliations Department of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Ecosystem Function Group, Institute of Ecology, University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS AMK. Performed the experiments: MS. Analyzed the data: MS MO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS MO CDZ AMK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MS MO CDZ AMK. Described the species: MO.