About the Authors

Susanne Shultz

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Mark Maslin

m.maslin@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Geography, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS MM. Performed the experiments: SS MM. Analyzed the data: SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS MM. Wrote the paper: MM SS.