ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We kindly acknowledge all the coordinators and the gardening team for their exceptional work in maintaining the Jena Experiment. We are enormously thankful to Carla María Silvar Fernández and Marina Baile Cardoso Ficker for the constant help in the field sampling, as well as Roman Patzak, Rike Schwarz, Felix Zeh, and Julius Quosh for emergency help. We immensely thank Laura-Fiona Heptner, Georg Hähn and Alfred Lochner for their lab support. We also thank Kevin Mueller and Solveig Franziska Bucher for enlightenments and critiques in early stages of the manuscript preparation. The Jena Experiment is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, FOR 5000). Moreover, we acknowledge the support of iDiv funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG–FZT 118, 202548816) and the DFG (Ei 862/29-1). Additionally, TK received further funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the project PANOPS (project number 504978936).