About the Authors

Yesenia Vega

Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador

Isabel Marques

isabel.ic@gmail.com

Current address: UBC Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research, and Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Affiliations Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador, Department of Agriculture (Botany), High Polytechnic School of Huesca, University of Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain

Sílvia Castro

Affiliation CFE – Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

João Loureiro

Affiliation CFE – Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IM. Performed the experiments: YV JL SC. Analyzed the data: YV IM JL SC. Wrote the manuscript: IM JL SC.