About the Authors

Simone Fattorini

simone_fattorini@virgilio.it

Affiliations Water Ecology Team, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy, Azorean Biodiversity Group, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias CITA-A, Universidade dos Açores, Pico da Urze, Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal

Roger L. H. Dennis

Affiliations Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom, Institute for Environment, Sustainability and Regeneration, Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom

Laurence M. Cook

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SF RLHD LMC. Analyzed the data: SF. Wrote the paper: SF RLHD LMC.