About the Authors

Brittany R. Kruger

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

brittany.kruger@dri.edu

Affiliation Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Joshua D. Sackett

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The corresponding author has been employed by both the Desert Research Institute and Garden Farms of Nevada, who both contributed funding for this work in the form of salary only. The funders provided support in the form of salaries for author Kruger but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. These affiliations do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.