About the Authors

Eric C. Yip

ecy7@cornell.edu

Affiliation Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes of Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

Na’ama Berner-Aharon

Affiliation Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes of Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

Deborah R. Smith

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States of America

Yael Lubin

Affiliation Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes of 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: ECY NB YL. Performed the experiments: ECY NB. Analyzed the data: ECY NB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL DRS. Wrote the paper: ECY NB YL DRS.