About the Authors

Nicole Creanza

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Creanza, Jason S. Schwarz

Affiliation Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jason S. Schwarz

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Creanza, Jason S. Schwarz

jschwarz@rockefeller.edu

Affiliation Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Joel E. Cohen

Affiliations Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NC JSS JEC. Performed the experiments: NC JSS. Analyzed the data: NC JSS. Wrote the paper: NC JSS JEC.