About the Authors

Christiane Roscher

christiane.roscher@ufz.de

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

Jens Schumacher

Affiliation Institute of Stochastics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Marlén Gubsch

Affiliation Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Annett Lipowsky

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Alexandra Weigelt

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

Nina Buchmann

Affiliation Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Bernhard Schmid

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Ernst-Detlef Schulze

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CR JS MG AL BS NB EDS. Performed the experiments: CR MG AL AW. Analyzed the data: JS CR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NB BS EDS. Wrote the paper: CR JS BS NB MG AL AW EDS.