About the Authors

Katherine Scranton

katherine.scranton@yale.edu

Affiliations Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Menelaos Stavrinides

Affiliations Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

Nicholas J. Mills

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

Perry de Valpine

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: KS PdV MS NM. Performed the experiments: KS. Analyzed the data: KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PdV NM. Wrote the paper: KS. Lent expertise on mite-grape system: MS NM.