About the Authors

Martin H. Entling

entling@uni-landau.de

Affiliations Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau/Pfalz, Germany, Community Ecology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Oliver Schweiger

Affiliation UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Community Ecology, Halle, Germany

Sven Bacher

Affiliations Community Ecology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Ecology and Evolution Unit, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Xavier Espadaler

Affiliation Animal Biodiversity Group, Ecology Unit and CREAF, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Thomas Hickler

Affiliation Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) & Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung & Department of Physical Geography at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Sabrina Kumschick

Affiliations Community Ecology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa

Ben A. Woodcock

Affiliation NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Wolfgang Nentwig

Affiliation Community Ecology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WN. Performed the experiments: WN XE SK MHE OS SB BAW TH. Analyzed the data: MHE OS. Wrote the paper: MHE OS SB XE TH SK BAW WN.