About the Authors

Wim C. Mullié

Contributed equally to this work with: Wim C. Mullié, Robert A. Cheke

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

wim_sen@yahoo.fr

Current address: Dakar-Fann, Senegal

Affiliation Emergency Centre for Locust Operations, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Via delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy

Robert A. Cheke

Contributed equally to this work with: Wim C. Mullié, Robert A. Cheke

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

Affiliation Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich at Medway, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent, United Kingdom

Stephen Young

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich at Medway, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent, United Kingdom

Abdou Baoua Ibrahim

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Direction Générale de la Protection des Végétaux (DGPV), Niamey, Niger

Albertinka J. Murk

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Marine Animal Ecology group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.