About the Authors

Stephan Woodborne

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Woodborne, Patience Gandiwa, Grant Hall, Adrian Patrut, Jemma Finch

Swoodborne@tlabs.ac.za

Affiliations iThemba LABS, Private Bag 11, WITS, 2050, South Africa, Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa

Patience Gandiwa

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Woodborne, Patience Gandiwa, Grant Hall, Adrian Patrut, Jemma Finch

Affiliation Discipline of Geography, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, 3209, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Grant Hall

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Woodborne, Patience Gandiwa, Grant Hall, Adrian Patrut, Jemma Finch

Affiliation Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa

Adrian Patrut

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Woodborne, Patience Gandiwa, Grant Hall, Adrian Patrut, Jemma Finch

Affiliation Faculty of Chemistry, Babes-Bolyai University, Arany Janos 11, 400028, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Jemma Finch

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Woodborne, Patience Gandiwa, Grant Hall, Adrian Patrut, Jemma Finch

Affiliation Discipline of Geography, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, 3209, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW GH. Performed the experiments: SW GH AP PG JF. Analyzed the data: SW GH PG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW GH AP. Wrote the paper: SW PG JF.