About the Authors

Marco A. Molina-Montenegro

marco.molina@ceaza.cl

Affiliation Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile

Daniel E. Naya

Affiliation Departamento de Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias and Centro Universitario de la Regional Este, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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