About the Authors

Enrique G. de la Riva

Affiliation Area de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain

Manuel Olmo

Affiliation Area de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain

Hendrik Poorter

Affiliation Plant Sciences (IBG-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany

José Luis Ubera

Affiliation Area de Botánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain

Rafael Villar

rafael.villar@uco.es

Affiliation Area de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RV EGDR. Performed the experiments: EGDR MO. Analyzed the data: EGDR RV MO JLU HP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EGDR MO JLU. Wrote the paper: EGDR RV HP.