Lauren Bomeisl, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, Eric D. Roy, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, VT, United States, Stephen Porder, Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States, Christopher Neill, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States and Paulo M Brando, The Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States