About the Authors

Francisco de Castro

decastro.f@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Ursula Gaedke

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Jens Boenigk

Affiliation Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondsee, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JB. Performed the experiments: FdC. Analyzed the data: FdC. Wrote the paper: FdC. Developed and analyzed the model: FdC. Contributed to results analysis and writing: UG, JB.