About the Authors

Raeann Mettler

raeann.mettler@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology and Animal Ecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

H. Martin Schaefer

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Biology and Animal Ecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Nikita Chernetsov

Affiliation Biological Station Rybachy, Zoological Institute, Rybachy, Kaliningrad Region, Russia

Wolfgang Fiedler

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Vogelwarte, Radolfzell, Germany, University of Konstanz, Department of Biology, Konstanz, Germany

Keith A. Hobson

Affiliation Environment Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Mihaela Ilieva

Affiliation Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

Elisabeth Imhof

Affiliation Wildlife Ecology and Management, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Arild Johnsen

Affiliation Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Swen C. Renner

Affiliations Institute of Experimental Ecology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, United States of America

Gregor Rolshausen

Affiliation Redpath Museum & Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

David Serrano

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Sevilla, Spain

Tomasz Wesołowski

Affiliation Laboratory of Forest Biology, Wrocław University, Wrocław, Poland

Gernot Segelbacher

Affiliation Wildlife Ecology and Management, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HMS GS RM. Performed the experiments: RM GS. Analyzed the data: RM GS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM KAH NC MI EI AJ SCR DS GR TW WF. Wrote the manuscript: RM GS HMS. Analyzed isotope samples: KAH.