About the Authors

Ben J. Kefford

ben.kefford@rmit.edu.au

Affiliation Centre for Environmental Sustainability, School of the Environment, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, New South Wales, Australia

Graeme L. Hickey

Affiliation Northwest Institute for Bio-Health Informatics (NIBHI), University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Avital Gasith

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Elad Ben-David

Current address: Kfar Hess, Israel

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Jason E. Dunlop

Affiliation Department of Environment and Resource Management, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Carolyn G. Palmer

Affiliation Institute of Water Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Kaylene Allan

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia

Satish C. Choy

Affiliation Department of Environment and Resource Management, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Christophe Piscart

Affiliation UMR CNRS 5023 Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés, Université de Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJK CP. Performed the experiments: BJK CP AG EB-D JED CGP KA SCC. Analyzed the data: BJK CP GLH EB-D KA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BJK CP AG CGP SCC. Wrote the paper: BJK CP GLH.