About the Authors

Elisabeth Marquard

lisa.marquard@ufz.de

Affiliation UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Conservation Biology, Leipzig, Germany

Bernhard Schmid

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies and Zurich-Basel Plant Science Centre, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Christiane Roscher

Affiliation UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Community Ecology, Halle, Germany

Enrica De Luca

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies and Zurich-Basel Plant Science Centre, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Karin Nadrowski

Affiliation Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Wolfgang W. Weisser

Affiliation Terrestrial Ecology/Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Alexandra Weigelt

Affiliations Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS CR WW. Performed the experiments: EM CR AW EDL. Analyzed the data: EM BS KN AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EM BS KN AW. Wrote the paper: EM.