About the Authors

Ricardo M. Holdo

rholdo@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Anthony R. E. Sinclair

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Andrew P. Dobson

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Kristine L. Metzger

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Benjamin M. Bolker

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mark E. Ritchie

Affiliation Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Robert D. Holt

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: RMH ARES. Analyzed the data: RMH BMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RMH BMB MER. Wrote the paper: RMH APD RDH. Conducted the state-space analysis: RMH. Collected data: ARES KLM. Proposed hypothesis: ARES APD.