About the Authors

Alistair W. R. Seddon

alistair.seddon@zoo.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Long-Term Ecology Laboratory, Biodiversity Institute at the Oxford Martin School, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Cynthia A. Froyd

Affiliations Long-Term Ecology Laboratory, Biodiversity Institute at the Oxford Martin School, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Geography, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

Melanie J. Leng

Affiliation NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Glenn A. Milne

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Marion Hall, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Katherine J. Willis

Affiliations Long-Term Ecology Laboratory, Biodiversity Institute at the Oxford Martin School, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AWRS CAF MJL KJW. Performed the experiments: AWRS MJL. Analyzed the data: AWRS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AWRS CAF MJL GAM. Wrote the paper: AWRS GAM.