About the Authors

Christian Mulder

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: christian.mulder@rivm.nl

Affiliation Laboratory for Ecological Risk Assessment, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands

Marja Wouterse

Affiliation Laboratory for Ecological Risk Assessment, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands

Markus Raubuch

Affiliation Department of Soil Biology and Plant Nutrition, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, Germany

Willem Roelofs

Affiliation Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom

Michiel Rutgers

Affiliation Laboratory for Ecological Risk Assessment, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

C. Mulder and M. Raubuch conceived and designed the experiments. C. Mulder, M. Wouterse, M. Raubuch, and M. Rutgers performed the experiments. M. Raubuch, W. Roelofs, and M. Rutgers contributed materials/analysis tools. C. Mulder and W. Roelofs designed and analyzed the models. C. Mulder and M. Wouterse performed the calculations. C. Mulder wrote the paper.