About the Authors

Joanna Mills Flemming

joanna.flemming@dal.ca

Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Ian D. Jonsen

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Ransom A. Myers

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Christopher A. Field

Affiliation Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: JEMF IDJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JEMF CF. Wrote the paper: JEMF. Conceived and designed the analysis: JEMF. Revised the paper: IDJ CF. Conceived the analysis: RAM.