About the Authors

Charles R. Clement

cclement@inpa.gov.br

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil

Ronaldo P. Santos

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil

Sylvain J. M. Desmouliere

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil

Evandro J. L. Ferreira

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Nucleus – Acre, Rio Branco, Acre, Brasil

João Tomé Farias Neto

Affiliation Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, Pará, Brasil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CRC EJLF. Performed the experiments: RPS EJLF JTFN. Analyzed the data: CRC SJMD EJLF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJMD. Wrote the paper: CRC RPS SJMD EJLF JTFN.