About the Authors

George Hess

Contributed equally to this work with: George Hess, M. Nils Peterson

george_hess@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

M. Nils Peterson

Contributed equally to this work with: George Hess, M. Nils Peterson

Affiliation Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GH MNP. Performed the experiments: GH MNP. Analyzed the data: GH MNP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GH MNP. Wrote the paper: GH MNP.