About the Authors

Brett Howland

brett.howland@anu.edu.au

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment Frank Fenner Building, # 141 Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

Dejan Stojanovic

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment Frank Fenner Building, # 141 Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

Iain J. Gordon

Affiliations Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment Frank Fenner Building, # 141 Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia, James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, Scotland, United Kingdom

Adrian D. Manning

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment Frank Fenner Building, # 141 Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

Don Fletcher

Affiliation Conservation Research, Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate, PO Box 158, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

David B. Lindenmayer

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment Frank Fenner Building, # 141 Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

Competing Interests

BH has been contracted by the ACT Government, the Australian Government and Bush Heritage on various occasions to conduct biodiversity monitoring activities relating to grazing. Funding directly related to research in this manuscript is disclosed under the Financial Disclosure statement. 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: BH DBL ADM IJG DF. Performed the experiments: BH. Analyzed the data: BH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BH. Wrote the paper: BH DS DBL IJG DF ADM.