About the Authors

Gili Greenbaum

gili.greenbaum@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

Alan R. Templeton

Affiliations Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Institute of Evolution, and Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Yair Zarmi

Affiliation Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

Shirli Bar-David

Affiliation Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG AT YZ SB. Performed the experiments: GG AT YZ SB. Analyzed the data: GG AT YZ SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GG AT YZ SB. Wrote the paper: GG AT YZ SB.