About the Authors

Jeremy A. Feinberg

jeremy.feinberg@rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Catherine E. Newman

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell

Affiliation Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Matthew D. Schlesinger

Affiliation New York Natural Heritage Program, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Albany, New York, United States of America

Brian Zarate

Affiliation New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, Endangered and Nongame Species Program, Clinton, New Jersey, United States of America

Brian R. Curry

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

H. Bradley Shaffer

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Joanna Burger

Affiliations Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAF CEN GJWC MDS BZ HBS JB. Performed the experiments: JAF CEN GJWC MDS. Analyzed the data: JAF CEN MDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAF GJWC MDS BZ BRC JB. Wrote the paper: JAF CEN GJWC MDS BRC HBS JB.