About the Authors

Ernst van der Maaten

ernst.vandermaaten@uni-greifswald.de

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Allan Buras

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Tobias Scharnweber

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Sonia Simard

Affiliation Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Knut Kaiser

Affiliation Staff Scientific Executive Board, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany

Sebastian Lorenz

Affiliation Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Martin Wilmking

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EM MMT AB TS SS KK SL MW. Performed the experiments: EM MMT AB TS SS KK SL MW. Analyzed the data: EM MMT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK SL MW. Wrote the paper: EM MMT AB TS SS KK SL MW.