About the Authors

Sonia Ospina

sospina@cipav.org.co

Affiliation Area of Sustainable Livestock, Center for Research in Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems, Cali, Colombia

Graciela M. Rusch

Affiliation Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway

Danilo Pezo

Affiliation Livestock and Environment Program, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center, Turrialba, Costa Rica

Fernando Casanoves

Affiliation Biometric Unit, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center, Turrialba, Costa Rica

Fergus L. Sinclair

Affiliation College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Wales, United Kingdom and Production Ecology, World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SO GR DP FC FS. Performed the experiments: SO DP. Analyzed the data: SO FC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DP FC FS. Wrote the paper: SO GR DP FS FC.