About the Authors

Megan J. Fitzpatrick

mjfitzpatric@wisc.edu

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Paul D. Mathewson

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Warren P. Porter

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The corresponding authors has read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Warren Porter owns a patent on the Niche MapperTM modeling program used in this study (Method and System for Calculating The Spatial-Temporal Effects of Climate and Other Environmental Conditions on Animals, patent no. 7155377). This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJF WPP. Performed the experiments: MJF WPP. Analyzed the data: MJF WPP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WPP. Wrote the paper: MJF. Manuscript editing: MJF WPP PDM. Model development: MJF WPP PDM. Interpretation of analyses: MJF WPP PDM.