About the Authors

Elizabeth L. Sander

esander@uchicago.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

J. Timothy Wootton

Affiliation Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Stefano Allesina

Affiliations Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ELS SA. Performed the experiments: ELS SA. Analyzed the data: ELS. Wrote the paper: ELS SA JTW. Contributed Data: JTW.