About the Authors

Matthew D. Whiteside

Affiliation Biology Department and Institute for Species at Risk and Habitat Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Maria O. Garcia

Affiliation Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Kathleen K. Treseder

Treseder@uci.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDW KKT. Performed the experiments: MDW MOG. Analyzed the data: MDW KKT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KKT. Wrote the paper: MDW KKT.