About the Authors

Christiane Roscher

christiane.roscher@ufz.de

Affiliation UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Community Ecology, Halle, Germany

Jens Schumacher

Affiliation Institute of Stochastics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Bernhard Schmid

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies and Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Ernst-Detlef Schulze

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CR BS EDS. Performed the experiments: CR. Analyzed the data: CR JS BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EDS. Wrote the paper: CR JS BS EDS.