About the Authors

Anja Vogel

anja.vogel@uni-jena.de

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

Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

Affiliation Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Faculty of Biology – Geobotany, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Alexandra Weigelt

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

Competing Interests

AW (Co-Author) is a member of the PLoS ONE editorial board. 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: AW MSL. Performed the experiments: AV AW. Analyzed the data: AV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AW MSL. Wrote the paper: AV AW MSL. Interpretation of results: AV AW MSL.