About the Authors

Michael C. Wimberly

michael.wimberly@sdstate.edu

Affiliation Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America

Michael B. Hildreth

Affiliation Department of Biology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America

Stephen P. Boyte

Affiliation Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America

Erik Lindquist

Affiliation Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, United States of America

Lon Kightlinger

Affiliation South Dakota Department of Health, Pierre, South Dakota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW MBH LK. Performed the experiments: SPB EL. Analyzed the data: MW SPB EL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW MBH LK. Wrote the paper: MW.