About the Authors

Ivan P. Edwards

iedwards@umich.edu

Affiliation School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Donald R. Zak

Affiliations School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Harald Kellner

Affiliation School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Sarah D. Eisenlord

Affiliation School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Kurt S. Pregitzer

Affiliation College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IPE DRZ HK KSP. Performed the experiments: IPE HK SE. Analyzed the data: IPE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IPE HK SE DRZ. Wrote the paper: IPE DRZ HK SE KP.