About the Authors

Sebastian Doetterl

Contributed equally to this work with: Sebastian Doetterl, Elizabeth Kearsley

Sebastian.Doetterl@Ugent.be

Affiliations Ghent University, Isotope Bioscience Laboratory - ISOFYS, Ghent, Belgium, Augsburg University, Department of Geography, Augsburg, Germany

Elizabeth Kearsley

Contributed equally to this work with: Sebastian Doetterl, Elizabeth Kearsley

Affiliations Ghent University, Isotope Bioscience Laboratory - ISOFYS, Ghent, Belgium, Ghent University, Computational & Applied Vegetation Ecology - CAVElab, Ghent, Belgium

Marijn Bauters

Affiliations Ghent University, Isotope Bioscience Laboratory - ISOFYS, Ghent, Belgium, Ghent University, Computational & Applied Vegetation Ecology - CAVElab, Ghent, Belgium

Koen Hufkens

Affiliation Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, United States of America

Janvier Lisingo

Affiliation University of Kisangani, Faculty of Sciences, Kisangani, DR Congo

Geert Baert

Affiliation Ghent University, Department of Applied Biosciences, Ghent, Belgium

Hans Verbeeck

Affiliation Ghent University, Computational & Applied Vegetation Ecology - CAVElab, Ghent, Belgium

Pascal Boeckx

Affiliation Ghent University, Isotope Bioscience Laboratory - ISOFYS, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD EK HV PB. Performed the experiments: SD EK MB. Analyzed the data: SD EK KH HV PB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GB JL. Wrote the paper: SD EK MB JL KH GB HV PB.