About the Authors

Ernesto Gianoli

egianoli@userena.cl

Affiliations Departamento de Biología, Universidad de La Serena, La Serena, Chile, Departamento de Botánica, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology and Biodiversity, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Alfredo Saldaña

Affiliation Departamento de Botánica, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

Mylthon Jiménez-Castillo

Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EG AS. Performed the experiments: EG AS MJ-C. Analyzed the data: EG AS. Wrote the paper: EG.