About the Authors

Moris Abolafya

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Ortaç Onmuş

Affiliation Department of Biology, Natural History Museum Research and Application Center, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey

Çağan H. Şekercioğlu

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, KuzeyDoğa Derneği, Kars, Turkey

Raşit Bilgin

rasit.bilgin@boun.edu.tr

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA OO RB. Performed the experiments: MA OO. Analyzed the data: MA OO RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OO RB. Wrote the paper: MA OO CHS RB.