About the Authors

Nika Galic

ngalic@gmail.com

Current address: School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Geerten M. Hengeveld

Affiliations Alterra, Wageningen University and Research centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Workgroup Movement Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Paul J. Van den Brink

Affiliations Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Alterra, Wageningen University and Research centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Amelie Schmolke

Affiliation UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Ecological Modelling, Leipzig, Germany

Pernille Thorbek

Affiliation Syngenta Ltd., Bracknell, United Kingdom

Eric Bruns

Affiliation Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany

Hans M. Baveco

Affiliation Alterra, Wageningen University and Research centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: two out of seven co-authors are employed in commercial companies, namely Syngenta Ltd. and Bayer CropScience. The PhD of the corresponding author is partly supported by the two companies. Please rest assured that this has not affected a fully objective representation of the work described in the submitted manuscript. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NG GMH AS HMB. Performed the experiments: NG HMB. Analyzed the data: NG HMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PJvdB PT EB. Wrote the paper: NG GMH PJvdB AS PT EB HMB.