About the Authors

Renée L. Eriksen

renee.eriksen@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

José L. Hierro

Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra y Ambientales de La Pampa (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional de La Pampa), Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina

Özkan Eren

Affiliation Biyoloji Bölümü, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi, Aydın, Turkey

Krikor Andonian

Affiliation Environmental Studies Department, De Anza College, Cupertino, California, United States of America

Katalin Török

Affiliation Centre for Ecological Research (MTA ÖK), Vácrátót, Hungary

Pablo I. Becerra

Affiliation Departamento de Ecosistemas y Medio Ambiente, Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Daniel Montesinos

Affiliation Centre for Functional Ecology, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Liana Khetsuriani

Affiliation Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

Alecu Diaconu

Affiliation Institute of Biological Research, Biological Control Laboratory, Iasi, Romania

Rick Kesseli

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RLE JH RK. Performed the experiments: RLE. Analyzed the data: RLE RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH OE KA KT PB DM LK AD RK. Wrote the paper: RLE JH OE KA KT PB DM LK AD RK.