About the Authors

Robert R. Dunn

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert R. Dunn, Noah Fierer, Jessica B. Henley, Jonathan W. Leff, Holly L. Menninger

Rob_Dunn@ncsu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology and Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Noah Fierer

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert R. Dunn, Noah Fierer, Jessica B. Henley, Jonathan W. Leff, Holly L. Menninger

Affiliations Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Jessica B. Henley

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert R. Dunn, Noah Fierer, Jessica B. Henley, Jonathan W. Leff, Holly L. Menninger

Affiliation Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Jonathan W. Leff

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert R. Dunn, Noah Fierer, Jessica B. Henley, Jonathan W. Leff, Holly L. Menninger

Affiliation Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Holly L. Menninger

Contributed equally to this work with: Robert R. Dunn, Noah Fierer, Jessica B. Henley, Jonathan W. Leff, Holly L. Menninger

Affiliation Department of Biology and Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RRD NF JBH JWL HLM. Performed the experiments: RRD NF JBH JWL HLM. Analyzed the data: RRD NF JBH JWL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RRD NF. Wrote the paper: RRD NF JBH JWL HLM. Coordinated public science components of project: HLM.