About the Authors

Andrew C. Singer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

acsi@ceh.ac.uk

Affiliation NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Benson Lane, Wallingford, United Kingdom

Qiuying Xu

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Benson Lane, Wallingford, United Kingdom, Environmental Diagnosis and Management, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom

Virginie D. J. Keller

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Benson Lane, Wallingford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Andrew Singer status as Academic Editor for PLOS ONE and handling editor in the Antimicrobial Resistance call for papers does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials