About the Authors

Maren N. Vitousek

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mvitouse@princeton.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Mark A. Mitchell

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Anthony J. Woakes

Affiliation Center for Ornithology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom

Michael D. Niemack

Affiliation Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Martin Wikelski

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW MV. Performed the experiments: MV MM. Analyzed the data: MV MN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW MM AW. Wrote the paper: MV.