About the Authors

Edward B. Baskerville

ebaskerv@umich.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Andy P. Dobson

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Trevor Bedford

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Stefano Allesina

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, Computation Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

T. Michael Anderson

Affiliation Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

Mercedes Pascual

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EBB APD TB SA MP. Performed the experiments: EBB. Analyzed the data: EBB APD TMA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EBB APD TB SA. Wrote the paper: EBB APD TB SA MP. Developed the software used in analysis: EBB. Compiled food-web data from published literature: APD. Contributed plant distribution data: TMA. Developed an interactive network visualization tool: TB.