About the Authors

Steffen Schlüter

steffen.schlueter@ufz.de

Affiliation Dept. Soil Physics, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle, Germany

Hans-Jörg Vogel

Affiliations Dept. Soil Physics, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle, Germany, Institut für Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS H-JV. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS. Wrote the paper: SS H-JV.