About the Authors

Rachakonda Sreekar

sreekar1988@gmail.com

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, China, Agumbe Rainforest Research Station, Agumbe, Karnataka, India, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Chetana B. Purushotham

Affiliations Agumbe Rainforest Research Station, Agumbe, Karnataka, India, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Katya Saini

Affiliations Agumbe Rainforest Research Station, Agumbe, Karnataka, India, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Shyam N. Rao

Affiliations Agumbe Rainforest Research Station, Agumbe, Karnataka, India, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Simon Pelletier

Affiliation Agumbe Rainforest Research Station, Agumbe, Karnataka, India

Saniya Chaplod

Affiliation Agumbe Rainforest Research Station, Agumbe, Karnataka, India

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interest. This study was partly funded by The Gerry Martin Project. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS CBP KS. Analyzed the data: RS KS CBP. Wrote the paper: RS CBP KS. Performed the experiments: RS CBP KS SNR SP SC.