About the Authors

Irina C. Irvine

Irina_Irvine@NPS.gov

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, United States National Park Service, Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America

Christy A. Brigham

Affiliation Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, United States National Park Service, Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America

Katharine N. Suding

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Jennifer B. H. Martiny

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ICI KNS. Performed the experiments: ICI. Analyzed the data: ICI JBHM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ICI CB KNS JBHM. Wrote the paper: ICI JBHM.