About the Authors

Efrat Sheffer

eshefer@princeton.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey,United States of America

Charles D. Canham

Affiliation Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York, United States of America

Jaime Kigel

Affiliation The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Avi Perevolotsky

Affiliation Department of Agronomy and Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES CDC JK AP. Performed the experiments: ES. Analyzed the data: ES. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CDC. Wrote the paper: ES CDC JK AP.