About the Authors

Allan Buras

allan@buras.eu

Current address: Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universität München, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Soldmannstraße 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany

Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Soldmannstraße 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany

Ernst van der Maaten

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Soldmannstraße 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany

Svenja Ahlgrimm

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Soldmannstraße 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany

Philipp Hermann

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Soldmannstraße 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany

Sonia Simard

Affiliation GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.2, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Ingo Heinrich

Affiliation GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.2, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Gerd Helle

Affiliation GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.2, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Martin Unterseher

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Soldmannstraße 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany

Martin Schnittler

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Soldmannstraße 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany

Pascal Eusemann

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Soldmannstraße 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany

Martin Wilmking

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Soldmannstraße 15, 17487 Greifswald, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB. Performed the experiments: AB. Analyzed the data: AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA PH PE MW. Wrote the paper: AB MvdMT EvdM SA PH SS IH GH MU MS PE MW.