About the Authors

Mansour Aliabadian

M.aliabadian@uva.nl

Affiliations Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics and Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Mohammad Kaboli

Affiliation Department of Fishery and Environment, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Vincent Nijman

Affiliation School of Social Sciences and Law, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Miguel Vences

Affiliation Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA VN MV. Performed the experiments: MA MV. Analyzed the data: MA VN MV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA MK VN MV. Wrote the paper: MA VN MV.