About the Authors

Jennifer A Dunne

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jdunne@santafe.edu

Affiliations Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America , Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Richard J Williams

Affiliations Microsoft Research Limited, Cambridge, United Kingdom , Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Neo D Martinez

Affiliations Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America , National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Rachel A Wood

Affiliations Grant Institute, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom , Edinburgh Collaborative of Subsurface Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Douglas H Erwin

Affiliations Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America , Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JAD, RJW, NDM, RAW, and DHE conceived and designed the experiments. JAD and RJW performed the experiments. JAD analyzed the data. JAD, RJW, NDM, RAW and DHE contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. JAD, NDM, and DHE wrote the paper.