About the Authors

María S. Sánchez

mssanchezgm1@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

James O. Lloyd-Smith

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wayne M. Getz

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSS. Analyzed the data: MSS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSS JLS WMG. Wrote the paper: MSS JLS WMG.