About the Authors

Jonathan R. Thompson

thompsonjr@si.edu

Affiliation Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Smithsonian Institution Front Royal, Virginia, United States of America

Dunbar N. Carpenter

Affiliation Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Charles V. Cogbill

Affiliation Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, Massachusetts, United States of America

David R. Foster

Affiliation Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JRT DNC CC DRF. Performed the experiments: JRT DNC CC DRF. Analyzed the data: JRT DNC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC. Wrote the paper: JRT DNC CC DRF.