About the Authors

Kathleen A. Alexander

kathyalx@vt.edu

Affiliation Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Claire E. Sanderson

Affiliation Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Madav Marathe

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Bryan L. Lewis

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Caitlin M. Rivers

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Jeffrey Shaman

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

John M. Drake

Affiliation Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Eric Lofgren

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Virginia M. Dato

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Marisa C. Eisenberg

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology and Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Stephen Eubank

Affiliation Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.