About the Authors

Henri A. Thomassen

hathomassen@ucla.edu

Current address: Comparative Zoology, Institute of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Affiliation Center for Tropical Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Adam H. Freedman

Current address: Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Tropical Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David M. Brown

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wolfgang Buermann

Current address: School of Earth and Environment, Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kindgom

Affiliations Center for Tropical Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

David K. Jacobs

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HAT DMB AHF DKJ. Performed the experiments: HAT DMB AHF. Analyzed the data: HAT AHF WB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WB. Wrote the paper: HAT AHF DKJ.