About the Authors

Kevin P. Chugá-Puetate

Contributed equally to this work with: Kevin P. Chugá-Puetate

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

Affiliations Carrera de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Numa Pompilio Llona and Yaguachi, Quito, Ecuador, Fundación Cóndor Andino, Tamayo and Lizardo García, Quito, Ecuador

María Peñaranda-Valla

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

Affiliation Carrera de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Numa Pompilio Llona and Yaguachi, Quito, Ecuador

Daniel Escobar-Camacho

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Ecología Acuática, Global Research & Solutions Center USFQ, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

Jonathan Valdiviezo-Rivera

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Rumipamba and Shyris, Quito, Ecuador

Juan F. Rivadeneira

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

jfrivadeneira@uce.edu.ec

Affiliation Carrera de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Numa Pompilio Llona and Yaguachi, Quito, Ecuador

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.