About the Authors

Steffen Boch

steffen.boch@ips.unibe.ch

Affiliations Institute of Plant Sciences and Botanical Garden; University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Oeschger Center, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Daniel Prati

Affiliations Institute of Plant Sciences and Botanical Garden; University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Oeschger Center, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Dominik Hessenmöller

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Ernst-Detlef Schulze

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Markus Fischer

Affiliations Institute of Plant Sciences and Botanical Garden; University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Oeschger Center, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Provided forest inventory data: DH EDS. Conceived and designed the experiments: SB MF DH DP EDS. Performed the experiments: SB. Analyzed the data: SB DP MF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB. Wrote the paper: SB DP MF.