About the Authors

Bryan P. Wallace

b.wallace@conservation.org

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Global Marine Division, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Duke University, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

Andrew D. DiMatteo

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Marine Geospatial Ecology Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Alan B. Bolten

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research and Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Milani Y. Chaloupka

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Ecological Modelling Services, Pty Ltd, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Brian J. Hutchinson

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Global Marine Division, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México

Jeanne A. Mortimer

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Island Conservation Society, Victoria, Mahé, Republic of Seychelles

Jeffrey A. Seminoff

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Marine Turtle Ecology and Assessment Program, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Diego Amorocho

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Centro de Investigación para el Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo, Cali, Colombia

Karen A. Bjorndal

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research and Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jérôme Bourjea

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Laboratoire Ressources Halieutiques, IFREMER, Île de la Réunion, France

Brian W. Bowen

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, Hawaii, United States of America

Raquel Briseño Dueñas

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Banco de Información sobre Tortugas Marinas (BITMAR), Unidad Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México

Paolo Casale

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin,” University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, WWF Mediterranean Turtle Programme, World Wildlife Fund-Italy, Rome, Italy

B. C. Choudhury

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Endangered Species Management, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Alice Costa

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, World Wildlife Fund-Mozambique, Maputo, Mozambique

Peter H. Dutton

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Alejandro Fallabrino

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Karumbé, Montevideo, Uruguay

Elena M. Finkbeiner

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Duke University, Beaufort, North Carolina, United States of America

Alexandre Girard

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Association RENATURA, Albens, France, and Pointe-Noire, Congo

Marc Girondot

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

Mark Hamann

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Brendan J. Hurley

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Global Marine Division, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Milagros López-Mendilaharsu

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Projeto Tamar-ICMBio/Fundação Pro Tamar, Salvador, Bahía, Brazil, Department of Ecology, Institute of Biology, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Maria Angela Marcovaldi

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Projeto Tamar-ICMBio/Fundação Pro Tamar, Salvador, Bahía, Brazil

John A. Musick

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia, United States of America

Ronel Nel

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, School of Environmental Sciences, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Summerstrand Campus, South Africa

Nicolas J. Pilcher

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Marine Research Foundation, Sabah, Malaysia

Sebastian Troëng

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Global Marine Division, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Scientific Advisory Committee, Sea Turtle Conservancy, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Blair Witherington

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Melbourne Beach, Florida, United States of America

Roderic B. Mast

Affiliations IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group – Burning Issues Working Group, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Global Marine Division, Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

MYC is employed by a commercial company (Ecological Modelling Services, Pty Ltd) that provides ecological modeling services, and his involvement in this study was partially supported by this company. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BPW ADD ABB MYC BJH NJP RBM. Performed the experiments: BPW ADD ABB MYC BJH FAAG J. A. Mortimer JAS DA KAB JB BWB RBD PC BCC AC PHD AF EMF AG MG MH BJH MLM MAM J. A. Musick RN NJP ST BW RBM. Analyzed the data: BPW ADD ABB MYC BJH FAAG J. A. Mortimer JAS DA KAB JB BWB RBD PC BCC AC PHD AF EMF AG MG MH BJH MLM MAM J. A. Musick RN NJP ST BW RBM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BPW ADD ABB MYC BJH FAAG J. A. Mortimer JAS DA KAB JB BWB RBD PC BCC AC PHD AF EMF AG MG MH BJH MLM MAM J. A. Musick RN NJP ST BW RBM. Wrote the paper: BPW ADD ABB MYC BJH FAAG J. A. Mortimer JAS KAB PC AG MG MH MLM MAM RN RBM.