About the Authors

Yacine Kouba

kouba_yacine@yahoo.fr

Affiliation Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain

Felipe Martínez-García

Affiliation Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Escuela de Ingeniería de Montes, Forestal y del Medio Natural, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Ángel de Frutos

Affiliation Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC), Jaca, Huesca, Spain

Concepción L. Alados

Affiliation Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YK CLA. Performed the experiments: YK CLA. Analyzed the data: YK AF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YK FMG AF CLA. Wrote the paper: YK FMG AF CLA.