About the Authors

Etienne Laliberté

Affiliation School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

E. Carol Adair

Carol.Adair@uvm.edu

Current address: Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Sarah E. Hobbie

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EL ECA. Performed the experiments: EL ECA. Analyzed the data: EL ECA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EL ECA SEH. Wrote the paper: EL ECA SEH. Contributed data: EL SEH.