About the Authors

Antonios D. Mazaris

amazaris@bio.auth.gr

Affiliation Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Alexandra D. Papanikolaou

Affiliation Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Morgane Barbet-Massin

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Athanasios S. Kallimanis

Current address: Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Western Greece, Agrinio, Greece

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece

Frédéric Jiguet

Affiliation Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7204 MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, Conservation des espèces, Restauration et Suivi des Populations, Paris, France

Dirk S. Schmeller

Affiliation Helmholtz Center of Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Nature Conservation, Leipzig, Germany

John D. Pantis

Affiliation Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ADM ADP ASK JDP. Performed the experiments: ADM ADP MB-M FJ. Analyzed the data: ADM ADP MB-M ASK FJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ADM ADP MB-M ASK FJ DSS JDP. Wrote the paper: ADM ADP MB-M ASK FJ DSS JDP.