About the Authors

Niall P. McNamara

nmcn@ceh.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Ruth Gregg

Affiliations Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Simon Oakley

Affiliation Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Andy Stott

Affiliation NERC Life Sciences Stable Isotope Facility, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Md. Tanvir Rahman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

J. Colin Murrell

Affiliation School of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

David A. Wardle

Affiliation Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

Richard D. Bardgett

Affiliations Faculty of Life Sciences, Michael Smith Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Nick J. Ostle

Affiliations Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NPM RG JCM DAW RDB NJO. Performed the experiments: NPM RG AS SO MdTR. Analyzed the data: NPM DAW NJO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NPM NJO JCM AS. Wrote the paper: NPM JCM MdTR DAW RDB NJO.