About the Authors

Yuval R. Zelnik

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

zelnik@post.bgu.ac.il

Affiliations Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modelling, Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS, Moulis, France, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Yair Mau

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Institute of Environmental Sciences, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Moshe Shachak

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel

Ehud Meron

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Solar Energy and Environmental physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel, Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.