Jordan G Okie¹, Amisha T Poret-Peterson², Zarraz Lee³, Alexander Richter⁴, Luis D Alcaraz⁵, Luis Eguiarte⁵, Janet L Siefert⁶, Valeria Souza⁷, Christopher L Dupont⁸ and James Elser⁹, (1)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (4)J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, United States, (5)Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, (6)Rice Univ, Houston, TX, United States, (7)Instituto de Ecologia UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, (8)J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, United States, (9)Flathead Biological Station, MT, Missoula, United States