About the Authors

Eric G. Matson

ematson@caltech.edu

Affiliation Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Global Environmental Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Kasia G. Gora

Current address: Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Global Environmental Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Jared R. Leadbetter

Affiliation Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Global Environmental Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EGM JRL. Performed the experiments: EGM KGG. Analyzed the data: EGM KGG JRL. Wrote the paper: EGM.