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Competing Interests

The authors have no competing interests to declare.

Author Contributions

Jonathan D Tonkin conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Stefan Stoll conceived and designed the experiments, wrote the paper, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Sonja C Jähnig reviewed drafts of the paper.

Peter Haase reviewed drafts of the paper.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding the deposition of related data:

Data is available upon request at the LTER-D data portal: http://data.lter-europe.net/deims/

Funding

This study was financed by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), Hesse’s Ministry of Environment, and the research funding program LOEWE (Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-oekonomischer Exzellenz) of Hesse’s Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and the Arts. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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