About the Authors

Christopher M. Free

cfree@marine.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States of America

Olaf P. Jensen

Affiliation Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States of America

Bud Mendsaikhan

Affiliation Institute of Geoecology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Baruun Selbe-15, P.O. Box 81, Ulaanbaatar, 15170, Mongolia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BM CMF OPJ. Performed the experiments: BM CMF OPJ. Analyzed the data: CMF OPJ. Wrote the paper: CMF OPJ. Conducted and translated interviews: BM.