About the Authors

Robert A. Haack

rhaack@fs.fed.us

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Kerry O. Britton

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Research and Development, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Eckehard G. Brockerhoff

Affiliations Scion (NZ Forest Research Institute), Christchurch, New Zealand, Better Border Biosecurity, New Zealand

Joseph F. Cavey

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Plant Health Programs, National Identification Services, Riverdale, Maryland, United States of America

Lynn J. Garrett

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Center for Plant Health Science and Technology, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Mark Kimberley

Affiliation Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute), Rotorua, New Zealand

Frank Lowenstein

Affiliation New England Forestry Foundation, Littleton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amelia Nuding

Current address: Western Resource Advocates, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Lars J. Olson

Affiliation University of Maryland, Agricultural and Resource Economics, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

James Turner

Affiliation AgResearch Ltd., Ruakura Research Centre, Hamilton, New Zealand

Kathryn N. Vasilaky

Affiliation Earth Institute and International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist; however, the three authors from New Zealand (EGB, MK, JT) state that they are employees of Crown Research Institutes (CRI) in New Zealand (NZ ), which are wholly owned by the NZ Government and are constituted as limited liability companies. CRI employment for EGB, MK, and JT does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KOB EGB JFC RAH FL AN LJO. Analyzed the data: EGB JFC RAH MK FL AN LJO KNV. Wrote the paper: KOB EGB JFC LJG RAH MK FL AN LJO JT KNV.