About the Authors

Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira Caetano

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Jacob Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

David G. Chapple

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Richard Grenyer

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Tal Raz

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Zoology and Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Jonathan Rosenblatt

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Shiba, Israel

Reid Tingley

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Monika Böhm

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom, Global Center for Species Survival, Indianapolis Zoological Society, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Shai Meiri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Zoology and Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Uri Roll

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

uri.roll@gmail.com

Affiliation Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.