About the Authors

Tanjona Ramiadantsoa

tramiada@umn.edu

Current Address: Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, United States of America

Affiliation Metapopulation Research Centre, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Otso Ovaskainen

Affiliation Metapopulation Research Centre, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Joel Rybicki

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, Department of Algorithms and Complexity, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany

Ilkka Hanski

Affiliation Metapopulation Research Centre, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TR OO JR IH. Performed the experiments: TR. Analyzed the data: TR OO IH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TR JR. Wrote the paper: TR OO JR IH.