About the Authors

Henrik Thurfjell

henrik.thurfjell@slu.se

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Simone Ciuti

Affiliation Department of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Mark S. Boyce

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Competing Interests

We have received funding from a commercial source: Shell Canada Limited. This commercial funder as well as all the other funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HT SC MSB. Data curation: HT SC MSB. Formal analysis: HT SC MSB. Funding acquisition: MSB HT. Investigation: HT SC MSB. Methodology: HT SC MSB. Project administration: MSB. Resources: MSB. Supervision: MSB. Visualization: HT SC. Writing – original draft: HT. Writing – review & editing: HT SC MSB.