About the Authors

Sonny Shlomo Bleicher

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

bleicher@email.arizona.edu

Affiliations Tumamoc People and Habitat, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America, Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sde-Boker, Israel, Department of Biological Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Burt P. Kotler

Contributed equally to this work with: Burt P. Kotler, Joel S. Brown

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sde-Boker, Israel

Omri Shalev

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sde-Boker, Israel

Austin Dixon

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sde-Boker, Israel

Keren Embar

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sde-Boker, Israel

Joel S. Brown

Contributed equally to this work with: Burt P. Kotler, Joel S. Brown

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biological Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Research Center, Tampa, FL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.