About the Authors

Paul Székely

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jpszekely@utpl.edu.ec

Affiliations Museo de Zoología, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador, Laboratorio de Ecología Tropical y Servicios Ecosistémicos - EcoSs Lab, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador

Juan Sebastián Eguiguren

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC), Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering (CMCB), Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Dresden, Germany

Leonardo Ordóñez-Delgado

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratorio de Ecología Tropical y Servicios Ecosistémicos - EcoSs Lab, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador, Programa de Doctorado en Conservación de Recursos Naturales, Escuela Internacional de Doctorado, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain

Diego Armijos-Ojeda

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratorio de Ecología Tropical y Servicios Ecosistémicos - EcoSs Lab, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador, Programa de Doctorado en Conservación de Recursos Naturales, Escuela Internacional de Doctorado, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain

Diana Székely

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratorio de Ecología Tropical y Servicios Ecosistémicos - EcoSs Lab, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Ovidius University Constanța, Constanța, Romania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.