About the Authors

Audrey Niboyet

audrey.niboyet@grignon.inra.fr

Current address: Laboratoire Biogéochimie et Ecologie des Milieux Continentaux, UMR 7618 Université Pierre et Marie Curie/CNRS/AgroParisTech, AgroParisTech, Thiverval Grignon, France

Affiliation Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079 Université Paris-Sud 11/CNRS/AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France

Jamie R. Brown

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Paul Dijkstra

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Joseph C. Blankinship

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Paul W. Leadley

Affiliation Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079 Université Paris-Sud 11/CNRS/AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France

Xavier Le Roux

Current address: French Foundation for Biodiversity Research, Paris, France

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne, UMR 5557 CNRS, USC 1193 INRA, Université Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France

Laure Barthes

Affiliation Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, UMR 8079 Université Paris-Sud 11/CNRS/AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France

Romain L. Barnard

Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Christopher B. Field

Affiliation Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California, United States of America

Bruce A. Hungate

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences and Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CBF. Performed the experiments: AN JRB PD JCB PWL XLR LB RLB CBF BAH. Analyzed the data: AN. Wrote the paper: AN BAH.