About the Authors

Anu Swatantran

aswatan@umd.edu

Affiliation University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Ralph Dubayah

Affiliation University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Scott Goetz

Affiliation Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michelle Hofton

Affiliation University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Matthew G. Betts

Affiliation The Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Mindy Sun

Affiliation Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States of America

Marc Simard

Affiliation Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Richard Holmes

Affiliation Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RD AS SG. Analyzed the data: AS RD M. Simard. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG MGB RH MH M. Sun M. Simard. Wrote the paper: AS RD SG.