About the Authors

Rui Zhang

ruz104@psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Eelke Jongejans

Affiliation Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Katriona Shea

Affiliation Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RZ KS. Performed the experiments: RZ. Analyzed the data: RZ EJ KS. Wrote the paper: RZ KS EJ.