About the Authors

Sylvia Ritter

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Community Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany

Stefan G. Michalski

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Community Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany

Josef Settele

Affiliations Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Community Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Martin Wiemers

martin.wiemers@ufz.de

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Community Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany

Zdenek F. Fric

Affiliation Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Marcin Sielezniew

Affiliation University of Bialystok, Institute of Biology, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Białystok, Poland

Martina Šašić

Affiliation Croatian Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, Zagreb, Croatia

Yves Rozier

Affiliation CED Entreprises, Centre d’activités de Gorge de Loup, Lyon, France

Walter Durka

Affiliations Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Community Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

It is correct that one of the authors (Yves Rozier) is employed by a commercial enterprise (CED Enterprises). Furthermore, this does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR JS WD. Performed the experiments: SR. Analyzed the data: SR SGM MW WD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR ZFF MS MŠ YR JS. Wrote the paper: SR SGM MW WD.