About the Authors

Rosana Wiscovitch-Russo

Contributed equally to this work with: Rosana Wiscovitch-Russo, Jessica Rivera-Perez, Yvonne M. Narganes-Storde, Gary A. Toranzos

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rosana.wiscovitch@gmail.com (WR); gary.toranzos@upr.edu (GAT)

Affiliation Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Jessica Rivera-Perez

Contributed equally to this work with: Rosana Wiscovitch-Russo, Jessica Rivera-Perez, Yvonne M. Narganes-Storde, Gary A. Toranzos

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ecosystems & Global Change, Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand

Yvonne M. Narganes-Storde

Contributed equally to this work with: Rosana Wiscovitch-Russo, Jessica Rivera-Perez, Yvonne M. Narganes-Storde, Gary A. Toranzos

Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Archaeological Research, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Erileen García-Roldán

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Lucy Bunkley-Williams

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Raul Cano

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation The BioCollective, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Gary A. Toranzos

Contributed equally to this work with: Rosana Wiscovitch-Russo, Jessica Rivera-Perez, Yvonne M. Narganes-Storde, Gary A. Toranzos

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

rosana.wiscovitch@gmail.com (WR); gary.toranzos@upr.edu (GAT)

Affiliation Environmental Microbiology Laboratory, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Competing Interests

We would also like to declare that the authors have no existing competing interests.