About the Authors

Carrie A. Manore

cmanore@tulane.edu

Affiliations Center for Computational Science Tulane University New Orleans, LA, United States of America, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM, United States of America, New Mexico Consortium, Suite 301 Los Alamos, NM, United States of America

Richard S. Ostfeld

Affiliation Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Box AB, 2801 Sharon Turnpike Millbrook, NY United States of America

Folashade B. Agusto

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas Haworth Hall Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Holly Gaff

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA, United States of America, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban, South Africa

Shannon L. LaDeau

Affiliation Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Box AB, 2801 Sharon Turnpike Millbrook, NY United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CAM RSO FBA HG SLL. Formal analysis: CAM SLL. Funding acquisition: SLL CAM RSO HG. Investigation: CAM FBA HG SLL RSO. Methodology: CAM RSO SLL HG FBA. Software: CAM. Supervision: SLL RSO HG. Validation: CAM FBA HG. Visualization: CAM SLL RSO. Writing – original draft: CAM SLL RSO. Writing – review & editing: CAM RSO FBA HG SLL.