About the Authors

Jaideep Joshi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jaideep@ces.iisc.ernet.in (JJ); guttal@ces.iisc.ernet.in (VG)

Affiliation Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

Iain D Couzin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Collective Behaviour, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Konstanz, Germany, Chair of Biodiversity and Collective Behaviour, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Simon A Levin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Vishwesha Guttal

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jaideep@ces.iisc.ernet.in (JJ); guttal@ces.iisc.ernet.in (VG)

Affiliation Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.