About the Authors

Alan H. Welsh

Alan.Welsh@anu.edu.au

Affiliation Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

David B. Lindenmayer

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Christine F. Donnelly

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AHW DBL CFD. Performed the experiments: AHW DBL CFD. Analyzed the data: AHW CFD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AHW CFD. Wrote the paper: AHW DBL CFD.