About the Authors

Eric Ng'eno

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

ngenoeric11@gmail.com

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Claudia Nuñez-Penichet

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

Affiliations Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America, Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Zenia P. Ruiz-Utrilla

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

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Paula Isla Martins

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório Ecologia da Intervenção, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Victoria Argudo

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Weverton C. F. Trindade

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Narayani Barve

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Abdelghafar Alkishe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America, Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

A. Townsend Peterson

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

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.