About the Authors

Stefan A. Schnitzer

S1@uwm.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama

Scott A. Mangan

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama

James W. Dalling

Affiliations Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama, Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Claire A. Baldeck

Affiliation Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Stephen P. Hubbell

Affiliations Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Alicia Ledo

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America, ETSI Montes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Helene Muller-Landau

Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama

Michael F. Tobin

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Salomon Aguilar

Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama

David Brassfield

Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama

Andres Hernandez

Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama

Suzanne Lao

Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama

Rolando Perez

Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama

Oldemar Valdes

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama

Suzanne Rutishauser Yorke

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAS SPH. Performed the experiments: SAS SA DB AH SL RP OV SRY. Analyzed the data: SAS SAM JWD CAB AL HM-L. Wrote the paper: SAS SAM JWD CAB. Data organization: SAS SAM MFT SL.