Funding for this research was provided by:
Jacob Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation
Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel
Article History
Received: 19 March 2017
Revised: 7 December 2017
Accepted: 2 April 2018
First Online: 14 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All applicable international, national and institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed as stated in research permit 34613 from the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority. The field experiments were conducted under licence 34615 given to CK by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and under the permit BGU-R-2009 to CK from BGU Committee for the Ethical Care and Use of Animals in Experiments. This includes careful choice of study sites to avoid manipulating sensitive water sources that would make water entirely unavailable to wildlife. This article does not contain any studies with human participants performed by any of the authors.