About the Authors

Tamás Székely Jr

tamas.szekely@cs.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Kevin Burrage

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Mathematics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Marc Mangel

Affiliations Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Michael B. Bonsall

Affiliation Mathematical Ecology Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TS MM MBB. Performed the experiments: TS. Analyzed the data: TS. Wrote the paper: TS KB MM MBB. Developed the simulation methods: TS KB. Implemented the simulations: TS. Supervised the work: MBB MM.