About the Authors

Erik Nelson

enelson2@bowdoin.edu

Affiliation The Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Heather Sander

Current address: National Exposure Research Laboratory, Ecological Exposure Research Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Conservation Biology Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Peter Hawthorne

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Marc Conte

Affiliation The Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Driss Ennaanay

Affiliation The Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Stacie Wolny

Affiliation The Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Steven Manson

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Stephen Polasky

Affiliations Conservation Biology Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EJN HS PH MC DE SW SM. Performed the experiments: EJN HS PH MC DE SW. Analyzed the data: EJN HS PH MC SP. Wrote the paper: EJN HS MC SP.