About the Authors

Hannah V. Spear

Contributed equally to this work with: Hannah V. Spear, Zheyuan Zhuang, David C. Bañuelas, Elizabeth D. Crook

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

Affiliation Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Zheyuan Zhuang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hannah V. Spear, Zheyuan Zhuang, David C. Bañuelas, Elizabeth D. Crook

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Chloe Selby

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Faith Nicoll

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

David C. Bañuelas

Contributed equally to this work with: Hannah V. Spear, Zheyuan Zhuang, David C. Bañuelas, Elizabeth D. Crook

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Newport Bay Conservancy, Newport Beach, California, United States of America

Alys Arenas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Newport Bay Conservancy, Newport Beach, California, United States of America, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Newport Beach, California, United States of America

Amanda Swanson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Newport Beach, California, United States of America, California Invasive Plant Council, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Elizabeth D. Crook

Contributed equally to this work with: Hannah V. Spear, Zheyuan Zhuang, David C. Bañuelas, Elizabeth D. Crook

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

e.crook@uci.edu

Affiliation Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.