About the Authors

Christopher C Wilmers

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cwilmers@nature.berkeley.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Wayne M Getz

Affiliations Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

CCW conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, and analyzed the data. CCW and WMG contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools and wrote the paper.