About the Authors

Meng Xu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Pace University, New York, New York, United States of America

Joel E. Cohen

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

cohen@rockefeller.edu

Affiliations Laboratory of Populations, The Rockefeller University and Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Earth Institute and Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.