About the Authors

Maarten C. Boerlijst

M.C.Boerlijst@uva.nl

Affiliation Theoretical Ecology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Thomas Oudman

Current address: NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, The Netherlands

Affiliation Theoretical Ecology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

André M. de Roos

Affiliation Theoretical Ecology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MCB TO AMdR. Performed the experiments: MCB TO AMdR. Analyzed the data: MCB TO AMdR. Wrote the paper: MCB.