About the Authors

Rolando Cerda

rcerda@catie.ac.cr

Affiliations CIRAD, UMR System, 2 place Pierre Viala, Montpellier, France, CATIE, Program of Sustainable Agriculture and Agroforestry, Turrialba, Costa Rica

Jacques Avelino

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacques Avelino, Clémentine Allinne

Affiliations CIRAD, UMR System, 2 place Pierre Viala, Montpellier, France, CIRAD, UR Bioagresseurs, TA A-106—Avenue Agropolis, Montpellier, France, IICA, AP 55, Coronado, San José, Costa Rica

Christian Gary

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation INRA, UMR System, 2 place Pierre Viala, Montpellier, France

Philippe Tixier

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations CIRAD, UMR System, 2 place Pierre Viala, Montpellier, France, CIRAD, UPR GECO, TA B-26 / PS4—Boulevard de la Lironde—Montpellier, France

Esther Lechevallier

Affiliations CIRAD, UMR System, 2 place Pierre Viala, Montpellier, France, ENSAT, Avenue de l'Agrobiopole, Auzeville-Tolosane, France

Clémentine Allinne

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacques Avelino, Clémentine Allinne

Affiliations CIRAD, UMR System, 2 place Pierre Viala, Montpellier, France, CATIE, Program of Sustainable Agriculture and Agroforestry, Turrialba, Costa Rica

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RC JA CA. Data curation: RC. Formal analysis: RC JA CA PT. Funding acquisition: CA JA CG. Investigation: RC EL CA. Methodology: RC JA CA PT. Project administration: CA. Resources: CA JA. Supervision: RC JA CA CG. Visualization: RC JA CA CG. Writing – original draft: RC JA CA CG. Writing – review & editing: RC JA CA CG.