About the Authors

Sonia Kéfi

Contributed equally to this work with: Sonia Kéfi, Vishwesha Guttal

sonia.kefi@univ-montp2.fr

Affiliation Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, CNRS, Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

Vishwesha Guttal

Contributed equally to this work with: Sonia Kéfi, Vishwesha Guttal

Affiliation Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

William A. Brock

Affiliations Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Stephen R. Carpenter

Affiliations Department of Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Aaron M. Ellison

Affiliation Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Valerie N. Livina

Affiliation National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, United Kingdom

David A. Seekell

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Marten Scheffer

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

Egbert H. van Nes

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

Vasilis Dakos

Affiliation Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, Sevilla, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK VG VD SRC DAS VNL. Performed the experiments: SK VG. Analyzed the data: SK VG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK VG VD. Wrote the paper: SK VG WAB SRC AME VNL DAS MS EHvN VD.