About the Authors

Javier Perez-Saez

Current address: ECHO/IIE/ENAC, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Affiliation Laboratory of Ecohydrology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Lorenzo Mari

Affiliation Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Enrico Bertuzzo

Affiliation Laboratory of Ecohydrology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Renato Casagrandi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Susanne H. Sokolow

Affiliations Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America, Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Giulio A. De Leo

Affiliations Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, California, United States of America

Theophile Mande

Affiliation Laboratory of Ecohydrology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Natalie Ceperley

Affiliation Laboratory of Ecohydrology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Jean-Marc Froehlich

Affiliation Laboratory of Ecohydrology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

Mariam Sou

Affiliation Institute International d’Ingénierie de l’Eau et de l’Environment, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Harouna Karambiri

Affiliation Institute International d’Ingénierie de l’Eau et de l’Environment, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Hamma Yacouba

Affiliation Institute International d’Ingénierie de l’Eau et de l’Environment, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Amadou Maiga

Affiliation Institute International d’Ingénierie de l’Eau et de l’Environment, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Marino Gatto

Affiliation Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Andrea Rinaldo

andrea.rinaldo@epfl.ch

Affiliations Laboratory of Ecohydrology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, Dipartimento ICEA, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPS LM SHS GADL MG AR. Performed the experiments: JPS LM TM NC JMF MS AR. Analyzed the data: JPS LM EB RC MS HK HY AM MG AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPS LM RC MG AR. Wrote the paper: JPS LM RC SHS GADL NC MG AR.