About the Authors

Benjamin Blonder

bblonder@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Colorado, United States of America

Dana L. Royer

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America

Kirk R. Johnson

Affiliation National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America

Ian Miller

Affiliation Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Brian J. Enquist

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Colorado, United States of America, The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: BB DR BE. Performed the experiments: BB DR. Analyzed the data: BB DR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KJ IM BE. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: BB DR KJ IM BE.